You are very welcome Jim. Cheers...Hazel ---original message--- Thanks for the links Hazel, very helpful indeed.. Keep up the great work, people like you really make this world a better place.. Jim... -----Original Message----- From: SWLady123@aol.com [mailto:SWLady123@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:44 PM To: ENG-GLOS-FOREST-DEAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FoD] Dobbs-1881 & 1851 census Jim, I am pleased I could help. You can find them all online. These are the urls for 1881 census, Gloucestershire 1851 & 1901. You will also find FreeBMD useful. I am posting to the list, as it may help other 'New' researchers. 1881 census http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/searc h_ census.asp 1851 Gloucestershire census http://www.rootsweb.com/~cotswold/GLSontheweb.htm You may care to take another look at West Dean, because there are many more DODDs 1901 census http://www.census.pro.gov.uk/ Free BMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl but remember that West Dean BMDs were registered in Monmouth Registration District. Another valuable site is... http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/ There was an error on the 1881 census I sent you, they were born in West Dean, not East Dean !! Cheers....Hazel