"James Hills" <jameshills@att.net> wrote: > > Many public libraries now have the Heritage Quest program on their > > computer, and it contains all the census records, with free access > > via the library's computers. Check with your local library. > > When I used this path from the Houston TX library the only census' I > found were years 1790, 1800, 1810, 1920, 1860, 1870, 1890, 1910 > and 1920. I believe that there are more years than that. I also found > some of the indexing to be inadequate. I can say this as I have > copies of census data I copied at the library that I could not find > at Heritage Quest. The years you listed are at this point the only ones with indexes. I would presume at the Houston Library you can find the other years on microfilm. Census indexes always seem to be inadequate. It often requires a great deal of imagination to overcome the mistakes of both the enumerator or the indexer. Even so, they are an immense improvement over what we used to have: No or few indexes. County your blessings. It is free! And, even though not perfect, the HQ indexes are reputed to be the most accurate. Richard "Richard A. Pence" <richardpence@pipeline.com>