I am now up to census, worked out the translation for words thanks to the many people on this list. If someone was in the forces (I am referring to the earlier census up to 1871 here) either the army or even listed as a 'mariner' why is it I cannot locate them on the census yet find the wife & children and other family members of the various forces (the wife was listed as an husband of a Royal Engineer). Or is it my eyes are going cross-eyed from reading the films too much? Barbara Confused, cross-eyed & getting tired In a wet & windy Auckland (NZ) day