Dear Martha and list, I thought maybe I should mention that if the census index found at the DE archives is the same one that is found on ancestry.com, then you may have family on the census that did not make it to the index list. I started searching for my Still family in Delaware before the index was published (couldn't wait! -- thank goodness the state is small!). I found quite a few Stills, most of whom were related to me. However, when I compared the entries I found by going from page to page in the census with the index list, fully two thirds of the Still families I found did not appear on the list. Ergo, the old advice. . . If you are pretty certain that someone was in a certain area and they don't appear on an index, do the search the old fashioned way -- page by page. And, then, of course, if you don't find your targets where you thought they were or elsewhere, remember that the census takers were not always perfect (who is?) and go elsewhere for confirmation -- like church records or land records, etc. Karen Minneapolis In a message dated 10/24/02 3:45:50 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > > Is there someone living in Dover or who is going to Dover to > the Public Archives who would copy several Naturalization > records, for a fee, of course. Also, there is an index to > the 1930 census there, and I'd like a look up for page no. > etc. for some people in New Castle Co. Then I could access > the 1930 census myself. > Thanks for any help. > Martha > in NM > >