Kat, You're right, it can often be difficult. Where there is an index, the census searches aren't too bad, but I have the 1900 Census for much of Colorado and no index so doing lookups is very difficult. Especially if a town is broken up into several precincts. The two following URLs are good for locating counties. http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html Again, if someone can mail me some maps, I'd be glad to put something on the webpages! Teri > Yes I do have a comment to Teri's statement. I have spent numerous hours > trying to find the County of several towns, which by the way I finally > did. Now I need to know the township that County is in. Now how does one > go about finding out that sort of information?? How can one look up the > census if one first of all needs the town, county AND township?? Thank you > for your time. - ------------------------------------- Terry (Phil 4:13) Teri (Ps 37:5) To God be the glory! Lancaster, OH http://www.greenapple.com/~pastor751 http://www.rootsweb.com/~mtwheatl/index.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnisanti/Isanti/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~cosanmig/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~comontro/index.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~codolore/index.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~comesa2/