Hi Alison I'm afraid all I can say is it is not ready yet, but it is certainly progressing. I have included my last reply to the list below about this (of approximately 1 month ago) hopefully it explains the situation, and all that it says applies equally now. Kevin Quick ==============copy of earlier posting================= The short answer is I don't have a definitive date when the CD-ROMs will be ready, but we are hoping it will not be too long now, so I can only request that people are patient for a while longer - I am personally very keen to see the end product from all the hard work we have put into this. As members of this list are probably aware, we completed the transcription and checking stages of the project some months back, and at that point all the data was passed over to the software company which is responsible for creating the CD-ROMs - the completion is now entirely in their hands. They have to take the census data and import it into their search engine software - the search engine is superb, allowing mapping of data and complex searches etc. but to do this requires the porting of the data (as provided by the BGS) to the format of the CD database and the creation extra relational indexes etc. and its this process which is being worked on. -----Original Message----- From: BUCKS-L@rootsweb.com [mailto:BUCKS-L@rootsweb.com] Sent: 05 December 2004 12:57 To: BUCKS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BKM] 1861 census cd Importance: Low Hi all, I expect you are fed up woth people asking this question but do you have any idea when the 1861 cencus CDROM will be ready?  I'm sure i am not the only one who is wondering and i haven't seen the question asked for a few weeks so i thought i'd ask again best wishes Alison ==== BUCKS Mailing List ==== Please do not post long surname lists.  Dave Carlsen looks after the Bucks surname list, which is the proper place for such postings.  Go to: http://webpages.charter.net/dcarlsen/genuki/BKM/bucksurname.html