Thanks, Bernice. Googled 1820 Twiggs County, Georgia census and got below at Ancestry.Com. 1820 Federal census schedules are missing for Franklin, Rabun and Twiggs counties Also found identical info at Ga. Secretary of State office. Guess I answered my own question. Should have researched further before posting my query. Ralph ----- Original Message ----- From: <bernicebooks@comcast.net> To: <GATWIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 7:03 AM Subject: [GATWIGGS] Re: 1810 and 1820 Twiggs County census > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADE/516.1 > > Message Board Post: > > There may have been a 1810 census, but from the info below it appears that portions of it was lost: > "The official enumeration day of the 1810 census was 6 August 1810. All questions asked were supposed to refer to that date. The enumeration was to be completed within nine months, but the due date was extended by law to ten months. Schedules exist for 17 states and District of Columbia, Georgia territory, Mississippi territory, Louisiana territory, Orleans, Michigan territory, and Illinois territory. There was, however, a district wide loss for District of Columbia, Georgia, Indiana Territory, Mississippi Territory, Louisiana Territory (MO), New Jersey and Tennessee. Partial losses included Illinois Territory, which had only two counties (Randolph is extant, St. Clair is lost.), and OH, all lost except Washington County. Some of the schedules for these states have been re-created using tax lists and other records." One source says that they (1810 census) were burned by the British during the War of 1812 [Records of the first three censuses of the population of the US for G! > eorgia ~ taken in 1790, 1800, and 1810, were apparently destroyed during the War of 1812 in the British assault on Washington] > > Even more recent, I've not been able to find the 1880 Twiggs, other than a look up at the LDS website. As that is a transcription it's not as valuable a tool as the images of the census pages would be. We all know how often names are misspelled and left off transcriptions. > Bernice > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== GATWIGGS Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >