Hi fellow listers...this is an offer for this list only. I would tackle the challenge of reading the old newspapers on microfilm over trying to interpret a census any day! My own handwriting is terrible but trying to read these old ways is eye boggling. I have had an 1860 Amador County census loaned to me by a very old (as having known a long time, not as in age) & a microfilm reader bestowed upon me by a very new friend. I was loaned the census so I could "test drive" the film reader. Reading the census this morning, I started writing down names I recognized....Tibbits, Phillips, Thomas, Harding, Moon, Martell, Scott, Culbert, Nathaniel Parsons. But then I realized that maybe many, or most of you, have already done the census route & I'm only duplicating your work. So, here's the offer...if you want me to check for your family names on this 1860 Amador County census, reply to me personally & I will do so. Jackie in California [email protected]