Dan, Ancestry.com's claims to indexing borders on fraud - only 1930 deserves any credit. It's a big change from the good way Ancestry started out - today it's all about profit :-((. I spent months searching there, and ended up making a spreadsheet to keep track of things! It got a little easier after I finally got DSL here! Suggest you first do your best to identify towns/townships for your people, and then go thru the tedium of page-by-page. It takes a while, but you'll get the hang of it. If you have a lot of needs as I did, plan a big "time budget"! I eventually made many discoveries critical to my own research - you will too. The only alternative I can think of is ordering the films, and that might be even worse! So just "take heart". RonKZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Hess" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:33 AM Subject: Re: [BAVARIA] Re: BAVARIA-D Digest V03 #133 > I searched the Index of the 1930 Census for Carl Buchner aged 65 and 64 and John Buchner aged 63 and 62 without a location and did not have anyone listed. Ancestry.com is funny sometimes about really broad searches, but it did not give may any matches. Sorry. I have also found Ancestry.Com was not able to locate people I am almost certain were included in the 1930 Census. Has anyone found any tricks to finding people using the search capability? If not can anyone offer any advice for finding people in a state like Nebraska that was not indexed, other than searching manually through an entire county microfilm listing? Dan Hess ==== BAVARIA Mailing List ==== Going on Vacation? Longer than 4 days? Go to http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/BAVARIA.html to unsubscribe