The 1880 census now has Beat 2 and 8 added to the Beat 1 that was already online. Beat 4 is over 1/2 done and will follow soon I hope. Many thanks to Christine Bonoyer <Twisel@bellsouth.net> for the transcribing and to Jim and Donna Nix for the proofreading. These have just gone online and are not listed on the GenWeb Archives or the UsGenWeb Census Project but they will be as soon as the volunters there get the links up. Since I manage the archive's for the county I can notify this list asap. Having done the final proofreading myself from silver halide copies of the NARA film I can say that there are MANY errors or questionable enteries and that you should use these as an index and check the ordiginals, from the film if at all possible. Everyone did a wonderful job on this one but there is no way to get everything right from a copy and the ordiginal film is much better. The transcriptions are availible at ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chilton/census/1880/ -- David Dennis, Proud Rootsweb Donor, dddennis@concentric.net, Chilton Co.,Al,UsGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~alchilto/chilton.htm Lincoln Co,Ga, UsGenWeb,http://www.rootsweb.com/~galincol/index.html listowner for ALCHILTO-L for Chilton CO., AL and GALINCOL-L, Lincoln Co.,GA,SWORDS-L mailing list,