Thank you all for the replies. I had suspected I was relying too much on the accuracy of the indices; your responses confirm that. [If/when ancestry.com gets around to re-indexing the censuses, my wish is that they'd also allow a more versatile wildcard search. Having to supply the first three letters in a name is quite limiting.] I shall commence a page-by-page search for my guy - I know he is there somewhere. Thank you again. Susan Moeur <[email protected]>