Octavia, I can't find your address but I'm sure if I send this to the list that you'll get it. You asked me about the Truitt books that are listed at http://www.gagenbooks.com/bookstruittpm.htm I told you that I had bought the "Emanuel County, Georgia 1880 Federal Census." The only problem I found with it was that the compilers included the year of birth and assumed that everyone was born between January and May. As you know, the 1880 census gave an age, not a year of birth. That age was supposed to be their age before June 1, 1880. Most researchers take the age on the census and subtract it from the year of the census, and then say the person was born in that year. I take the age on the census, subtract it from the census year, then subtract one more. In other words, if a person was 40 on the 1880 census, I say they were born circa 1839. I also bought their "Marriage Records of Emanuel County, Georgia 1817-1928." That book is a mess. I had previously seen a page from their book, but didn't know where it came from. Don Williams had asked about D. S. Meeks that married on Dec. 13, 1891. I wrote back that D. S. was Dennis Sherman, but he had married on Jan. 5, 1890. Well, Don "proved" that he was correct by sending me a copy of the page. I was sure I had copied it correctly but the next time I was in Swainsboro I obtained a photocopy of the marriage license, which I had copied correctly, and sent it to Don. As I was saying, I bought a copy of "Marriage Records of Emanuel County, Georgia 1817-1928." All of the marriages that they "copied" from the "1879 to 1888" book and "Book B 1887 to 1895," are totally screwed up. Somehow, they managed to get all of the marriage dates and the names of all the officials that performed the ceremonies wrong. They must have been using a computer program to enter the information and the data got scattered. Some of the dates are off by 9 or 10 years. As for the other marriage books they "copied," they managed to misspell some of the names, quite often they used the issue date instead of the marriage date, and in a couple of cases, they left out some marriages. In one place they changed Kersey to King. I wrote to the compilers but haven't received a reply. Yes, I would recommend the census books, but no way would I recommend that you purchase the marriage books. Your friend, Clyde