Folks, I don't know how well you know about FreeCEN, but here's a plug for it. FreeCEN is trying to transcribe all the census returns, and publish them on the Internet - much like FreeBMD has done for centralised birth, death and marriage records, and FreeREG is going to do for parish records. You can get to FreeCEN at http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ Because of a particular interest I had, I am transcribing a section of the 1861 census for Gloucestershire (actually Westbury-on-Trym), and I am sure that Bernadette Siebert, who is the co-ordinator for Gloucestershire would be delighted if any of you could offer some of your services to transcribing some of the records for the project. Maybe, like me, you need to find a particular relative in a census. Well, you could go through all the records yourself, or transcribe them for the project at the same time, and help many other genealogists. If you have a little time that you could give to the project, why not get in touch with Bernadette. You can find her details on the FreeCEN web site. Regards....Steve Papworth Proud to be working on the FreeCEN project _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger