Hello Mary Lou, Marcella Dawson's "Bavaria FAQ's" website page at: http://www.landfield.com/faqs/genealogy/german-faq/part2/section-4.html Indicates the following: The German central government conducted censuses in 1871, every five years from 1875 to 1910, 1919, 1925, 1933, 1935 (Saar), and 1939. West Germany had censuses in 1946, 1950, 1961, 1970, and 1987. East Germany had censuses in 1945, 1946, 1964, 1971, and 1981. Except for the 1939 census, these censuses are not useful for genealogical purposes; available data are of a statistical nature only. Each of the states conducted their own censuses at other times. Some of these censuses are available via your local LDS FHC and are quite useful genealogically. The central German census authority can tell you if certain censuses exist and where they can be found: Statistisches Bundesamt Gustav Stresemann Ring 11 Postfach 5528 D-65189 Wiesbaden http://www.statistik-bund.de I, personally, do not have access to any of the actual censuses myself and ask that list members please refrain from asking me to do look ups in any censuses, as this is a useless request for the aforementioned reason. Good luck to you all, Joanne