Jane Hodges-Kuebler wrote: >Is there a way to translate the info given with the Familysearch.org >1880 census into something easily searchable in Heritage Quest? The Source Information at the bottom of each Household Record on Familysearch tells you the Census Place and Page Number. I have a subscription to both the Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com census images and haven't used the Heritage Quest ones available at libraries, but I assume the Genealogy.com ones work almost the same since they are from the same source. Example: Census Place was Kaw, Jefferson Co., Kansas, page # was 267A. Click on 1880 census, click on Kansas, click on Jefferson Co., click on Kaw; in this case 267A was the first page that appeared, but I could have then entered the page number. (Thanks to recent discussions here re: how to access Heritage Quest thru libraries, I'll be saving myself some bucks in the future) >Also, assuming that you want hard copy files of your documentation, >how do you make census records? Do you transcribe, print the image, >print a blank form and fill in some/all of the census page? What do >you all recommend? I transcribe by hand onto pre-printed census forms; what I transcribe depends upon my purpose. I always transcribe exactly the complete info for the family I'm researching; I transcribe at least the names of heads of household for the neighbors at least 5 to 10 families on both sides of the target family* when I have little to no clue as to who the relatives of my target family are; and I always try to transcribe everyone in that locality with the same surname (luckily, all my ancestors were farmers in small rural communities). (* This of course doesn't work in the early census like 1820 when the census taker decided to be helpful and alphabetize the county). I'm experimenting with a freeware program called Bygones that has templates for the U.S. census so that I don't have to retype source info into Legacy; I'm not sure yet whether it will meet my needs. I typically don't print hard copies as they are almost impossible to read later. The only use for such copies that I can see would be if I were applying to join a lineage society. Connie Sheets clsheets1@prodigy.net