Thanks for the info, Shirley. I am in the process of transcribing the 1860 census for a county in Ohio and have noticed a few trends. One of these is that it seemed quite common to name one of the daughters after the mother. Of course I had known this is the common practice with sons and fathers but did not realize it was so common with the females. I have only found this once in all the families in my 'tree' so it was interesting to see and may help me in future searching. Another item I noticed during the transcribing was the obvious errors by the census taker. We all know that there was errors made by the enumerators but I have been totally surprised by the amount of obvious errors that I have seen. I have seen columns checked that say that 3 year old children or 65 year old adults attended school during the year; that 5 years old were married within the year; value of the personal estate of an unoccupied house was $50, etc. So, I must always remember to not take the census as hard facts and that some of the info could be in error. Karen