American AcornsRecords and documents: Augustus Ames
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1850 census, via Ancestry (image attached in the family tree).
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: What the page is: the 1850 census schedule cited in the tree as: _TEXT The National Archives in Washington, DC; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine; Roll: 268; Page: 60a. The page was not transcribed line by line. So the lines for these people were not individually checked here. The 1850-1870 schedules have no relationship column, so no relationship is stated. The tree also links Francis, Daniel L. and Horace Amos (Ames) and another child to this page; they are not yet tree persons here, so they are not tagged. Whether these are our people: Likely, not Confirmed. The family tree attaches this page to Augustus Ames, Nathaniel Phineas Ames, Hannah E Dow as the household in question; the identification of each name on the page is as the tree has it.
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Source: U.S. National Archives, Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registrations (RG 110), via Ancestry (image attached in the family tree)
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch.
Keep in mind: What the page is: a handwritten enrollment list with columns for name, residence, age and occupation; the line for Augustus Ames was not individually checked here. Whether this is our person: Likely, not Confirmed, that Augustus Ames is the tree's Augustus Ames (b. 1839), who was about 24 in 1863.
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1870 census, via Ancestry (image attached in the family tree).
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: What the page is: the 1870 census schedule cited in the tree as: _TEXT Year: 1870; Census Place: Canaan, Somerset, Maine; Roll: M593_558; Page: 90A. The page was not transcribed line by line. So the lines for these people were not individually checked here. The 1850-1870 schedules have no relationship column, so no relationship is stated. Whether these are our people: Likely, not Confirmed. The family tree attaches this page to Augustus Ames as the household in question; the identification of each name on the page is as the tree has it.
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Source: Maine State Archives, Maine Birth Records, 1715-1922, via Ancestry (image attached in the family tree)
How it is shown: Complete form as supplied; no crop, no retouch.
Keep in mind: What the page says: a printed 'Copied from old records, Record of a Birth' with the date of birth April 6 (the year is written 1873 on the form), the father's name Augustus Ames and a clerk's certificate from Canaan; the child's given name was not read from the thumbnail. Whether these are our people: Likely, not Confirmed. The father Augustus Ames matches the tree's Augustus Ames (1839-1928) and the date matches Stella Belle Ames's 6 April birthday; the tree gives her birth year as 1874 and the form's year differs, which is not resolved here.
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Source: National Archives (NARA T9).
How it is shown: Cropped (the whole page was not retained); no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: A crop. The wife's first name lies under an ink blot and is not read. The infant is read as Lillace (Aug 1879 birth, age 10 months).
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Source: Maine State Archives, Maine Marriage Records, 1713-1922, via Ancestry (image attached in the family tree)
How it is shown: Complete form as supplied; no crop, no retouch.
Keep in mind: What the page says: a printed 'Record of a Marriage' for the groom Perley F. Withee and the bride Stella B. Ames, with the intention filed in May 1896 and the marriage dated May 23, 1896 at Skowhegan; the form's details were read at thumbnail scale only. Whether these are our people: Likely, not Confirmed: the bride is the tree's Stella Belle Ames, and the tree attaches the record to her parents Augustus Ames and Annie (Bragg) Ames as the owner's source.
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Source: National Archives (NARA T623), via FamilySearch.
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Whole sheet. Gives Lillace's birth as Aug 1878; the 1880 census and obituaries fit 1879. Names a minor sibling now deceased; no living person.
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1900 census, via Ancestry (image attached in the family tree).
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: What the page is: the 1900 census schedule cited in the tree as: _TEXT Year: 1900; Census Place: Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine; Roll: 600; Page: 37; Enumeration District: 0164. The page was not transcribed line by line. So the lines for these people were not individually checked here. Lillace is linked on a partly truncated name in the tree's list. Whether these are our people: Likely, not Confirmed. The family tree attaches this page to Augustus Ames, Helen A Ames, Lorenzo W Ames, Lillace Alma Ames (Russell, Libbey), Elizabeth Ames as the household in question; the identification of each name on the page is as the tree has it.
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1920 census, via Ancestry (image attached in the family tree).
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: What the page is: the 1920 census schedule cited in the tree as: _TEXT Year: 1920; Census Place: Madison, Somerset, Maine; Roll: T625_648; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 110. The page was not transcribed line by line. So the lines for these people were not individually checked here. Whether these are our people: Likely, not Confirmed. The family tree attaches this page to Augustus Ames, Lorenzo W Ames, Elizabeth Ames as the household in question; the identification of each name on the page is as the tree has it.
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Source: R. P. Dow, The Book of Dow (1929); Internet Archive (public domain, published before 1931).
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: What the page says: Confirmed: 'Hannah E Dow adgfcja m Nathaniel P Ames, shoemaker of Canaan', with a children list that includes 'Frances b Mch 1827', 'David b 1829' and 'Augustus b 1839'; the remainder of the page treats other Dow lines. Whether these are our people: Likely, not Confirmed: Hannah E. Dow, Nathaniel Phineas Ames and Augustus Ames in the tree fit the names, the Canaan and Skowhegan places and the 1839 birth; the page is one printed source for the line.
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1880 census, via Ancestry (image attached in the family tree).
How it is shown: Complete page in the registry; no crop, no retouch.
Keep in mind: What the page is: the 1880 census schedule cited as Canaan, Somerset, Maine, roll 487, page 257b, ED 157. The page was not transcribed line by line. The scan carries a rotated stamp-like number on its right edge (printed by the source), which is part of the supplied image. Whether these are our people: Likely, not Confirmed: the registry tags Augustus Ames, Elizabeth Ames, Ames, Lillace Alma Ames (Russell, Libbey) to the page as the tree has it.
Record: 1880 United States Federal Census
Record: 1880 United States Federal Census
Record: 1880 United States Federal Census
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1910 census, via Ancestry (image attached in the family tree).
How it is shown: Complete page in the registry; no crop, no retouch.
Keep in mind: What the page is: the 1910 census schedule cited as Madison, Somerset, Maine, roll T624_546, page 14b, ED 229. The page was not transcribed line by line. Whether these are our people: Likely, not Confirmed: the registry tags Mary Gwendolyn Russell (Foss), Gertrude Faye Russell (Foss), Natalie Mildred Russell Oak, Lillace Alma Ames (Russell, Libbey) to the page as the tree has it.
Record: 1910 United States Federal Census
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Source: Find a Grave, memorial 140178173
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