Rootsweb user databases sometimes have just what you are looking for. Some new ones that look good http://userdb.rootsweb.com/aus contains nearly a million records for Australia and New Zealand with about 70,000 different names. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki has about a half million records for Britain and Ireland with about 45,000 different names. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/italy is a much smaller database with, you guessed it, Italian records. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages has marriage records in several states. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blanchec/ has Cornish records especially St. Allen's Parish. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genealogylinks/ has all kinds of links and is updated nearly daily. Take a look at the Native American links on this one. Isn't it nice that Rootsweb continues to provide so many free sites in spite of needing financially to hook up with Ancestry? When all else fails you need to get out of the genealogy websites and go elsewhere on the net. You would be amazed what you will find, including the family pages you haven't been able to find in your past searches of genealogy sites. People sometimes don't know how to use these sites and get overwhelmed with a return of 543,678 hits. Google has a tutorial that will help you a lot. http://www.google.com/tour/services/index.html Try http://www.alltheweb.com search tools. Alltheweb is trying to compete with Google so they keep adding more stuff to give you better search results. http://www.searchenginedictionary.com is just that. It defines words used by the search engines like Google and Alltheweb so you can figure out what they are talking about. When searching the census' you may find no hit for the name you are looking for. That may not mean the person is not there. It may mean the transcriber just could not read the name. I could not find my gggpa until I went to the state, then the county I thought he was in and then searched for his first name, which was Hollis. That is unusual enough that I could expect there would not be many with that name. And there he was with his last name Bunker all smeared up to the point that only a Bunker would recognize it. Also, if you do not find the name, look for each member of the family individually, such as Hannah Bunker, Willis Bunker, Sylvester Bunker and Charles Bunker. You may find it that way. Unable to find my husband's father, Charles Randall, I searched for his mother Elizabeth Randall. He was entered as Charley and not to be found as Charles. A site that will help you search census records http://www.censustools.com It also gives you, right now, a free 7 day try at Ancestry's census images. If you work hard at it you may find all the images you need in that 7 days. Sorry this message got so long. I have more but will put it in a separate message. Bette