bob gillis wrote: > > "Richard A. Pence" wrote: > > > > I am not quite sure, either, how you are using the FamilySearch 1880 > > listings. The LDS 1880 census material is an index and is not a > > "source document." > > Richard, it is a transcription and not just an index. It contains > the same information as the 1880 Census CDs as do the 1881 Canadian > and British Census. To the extent that most of what's on the LDS CD (and on line there) *IS* what's on the census, you're right. However, there is a great deal more on the census record than is indexed by the LDS. And regardless of whether it has the identical information, it remains NOT the original source document. Cheryl singhals@erols.com