For further info: 1861-1871: For our purposes, not all that much different from the 1851. The 1861 was taken on the night of the 8th of April, and the 1871 on the night of the 2nd of April. Some indexes exist - not many - but you will have to search for them. 1881. Taken on the 3rd of April. Most folk seem to know a fair bit about this one. Before the advent of CDROM it was distributed on microfiche, and was the first census to be completely indexed. The indexation took the form of five sets of fiche, colour coded to surname index - pink; place index - orange; birthplace index - green; miscellaneous (those on ships, in institutions, etc.) - brown; and as enumerated (written down as the census taker copied them onto his sheets) - yellow. Now the 1881 is online at www.familysearch.org With the advent of Viewer 3, a disc that came with later versions of LDS software, anyone who had the CDROM disks at home could by-pass the normal search and do a more user-friendly search. If I put in a string of words such as Price miller Gresford, up would immediately come Price, Frederick, miller, Gresford Lane, Gresford, and all the household. If one put in Jones butcher Wrexham, all the butchers by surname of Jones in that town would come up (and probably all those with the surname Butcher, too!). Another trick is simply to put in forenames, as in the case of a girl marrying to someone you haven't found yet. This is fairly selective, but it can work in instances where the forenames are uncommon, particularly if you include the birthplace, and then this gives you something else to search into. 1891. Taken on the 5th of April. Of course, not indexed, and you need to know a street (if choosing a town). Still, small villages and hamlets are fairly easy to access - usually contained within one to about four microfiche. These can be obtained from your local LDS family history centre and cost AU$1.00 for the first fiche, and 50 cents thereafter, and the fiche stay at the centre for future perusal. The family history library catalog should be consulted for places, and the larger LDS libraries have a list of street indexes. An example is my folk at Maesbury in the 1891 census, shown under the heading of Oswestry Rural. Another person was accessing these microfiche as recently as this week and was not having much luck until I mentioned that Oswestry Rural was not a hamlet or village as such, but a combination of the farming land around Oswestry. He went back to the fiche and found his folk within half an hour. 1901. Taken on the 31st of March. I think there has been enough talk re. this on the list of recent times, so no need for me to delve into that. Check out the archives of this list on Rootsweb! Pam