Betty, A free transcription of the 1880 Federal US census is available from the LDS web site, < http://www.familysearch.org >. It is NOT all the census information, it is NOT the written census information, it is a transcription of the information into a computer database and some details have not been included in the transcription. If Ancestry was not the site for which you were searching, it is possible that the LDS link off its home page would give you the suficient search ability you want of that Federal census. djweber [email protected] ---------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Anderson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 5:37 AM Subject: Re: [Ortenau] 1880 Census Free > Linda: I at one time had the ways and means of accessing the 1880 census, > now it is totally forgotten. Will you please help? > Thanks so much > Betty > [email protected]