Robin-- This was posted on my TransylvanCoGenList by one of our List Managers, Virginia Green on 18 October 2004 and I thought it might be useful to you and other researchers of Black Heritage..... "I just made a great discovery! At least to me it was! On the census at Heritage Quest, on advance search, you can leave out the surname and the given name, put in the state and county, and black and it will bring up the African Americans on that census in that county. In one county, I had to narrow it down by also putting in male, cause it will only return 1,000 names and more than that had come up. This is an excellent resource when you're not sure of the name or cannot find the person. To other researchers, you can look for other ways to use this: I left the surname off, put in a given name of Mary put in North Carolina put in Transylvania County and left the others at All And it brought up all the Mary's in The 1920 census of Transylvania County. If you don't know how to get Heritage Quest, you get it through your library. If your library doesn't subscribe to it, they probably have a deal with another library that does. And you can access it on the web! So much easier than reading page after page of microfilm, although it will take you to the exact page and you can view the copy of the actual document. Also many, many libraries have Ancestry, but you have to go into the library to use it. For a while I was able to get it on the St. Pete library web page, but that soon went away. Let me know if you need help in accessing Heritage Quest. There are other things there than just the census. Oh, and Wylene found it through her grandson's college library. Virginia Green **** Virginia, If you can't get it locally, and we can't in Augusta, GA, then you can join The Godfrey Library for 35.00 a year and get instant access. I phoned them and joined over the phone with a credit card. They immediately gave me my access code. I figured that I actually save money this way. The nearest library that has Ancestry access is a good 10 miles, and that was before gas prices started rising again. Looks like I will save even more. Their website is www.godfrey.org Cynthia Jane" **** Hope this helps. Ann Propst, Brevard, NC P.S. Virginia & Cynthia Ann--Thanks so much for posting this information. Robin has been doing an excellent job on the Black Heritage web page as well as the Maiden, NC web page.