It is absolutely a must to check the real film out! No one has advocated "just" looking at an index. There would be too much information missed. Many people we're searching are often listed with other families, besides being listed under the wrong name. The census indexes are certainly a point of departure to get a general idea of who was where, and when. -----Original Message----- From: SSukiennik@aol.com <SSukiennik@aol.com> To: GAELCEE@worldnet.att.net <GAELCEE@worldnet.att.net>; Dover-L@rootsweb.com <Dover-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [DOVER-L] 1830 & 1840 Ga/Census Index >Only problem with dealing with just census indexes is that you can sometimes >miss some of the people that were actually there. Hezekiah Dover is also in >Habersham Co,GA on the 1840 census on page 124 of Blue Creek Dist. I had not >found him on an 1840 census index. It wasn't until Bobbie Jean Frank pointed >him out to me that I found him. On the printed census index, he was listed as >Hezekiah Douse. He is very clearly Hezekiah Dover on the actual census. It >does pay to look at the microfilmed census records! > >Sharon S >