Hi Alan, Welcome to U.S. genealogy research! It sounds like you live in England and are seeking info on how to research in U.S. One of the LDS Family Research Centers in England (near you, hopefully) should be able to "order" Census microfiche for Wood Co.,WI. -Website: http://www.ldscatalog.com Unfortunatly, the 1890 Federal Census was distroyed, most people use voting registration records (which lists heads of households only), tax records, land records, and State Censuses for that decade. Area Research Centers in WI have history and genealogy records pertaining to several counties in that particular area. ARC information: http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/archives/arcnet/counties.html Each State is catagorized by county on USGenweb: http://www.usgenweb.org/ And of course Rootsweb, obviously you've found the Wisconsin mail-list. You may want to subscribe to the (more specific) Wood Co., WI . http://www.rootsweb.com/ scroll down to find the Mail-lists Catagory. Or just subscribe to: WIWOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com For Digest Mode: WIWOOD-D-request@rootsweb.com Good luck in your persuit of U.S. genealogy, Ellen - --------------------------------------------------- From: SturgessAG@cs.com To: GenWisconsin-L@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:40:50 EDT Hi all, I have just subscribed to this group and would like some help in tracing the parents of George Champley, born 1891 in Wisconsin. He married Louise (Lizzie) Rohde (also from Wisconsin). They had a son named Alvin Bernard Champley in 1915 born at Nekoosa, Wood County. It is believed that George's parents went to America from England, but I have not been able to find any details in England. Can anyone advise me where I can obtain bdm information for Wisconsin or possibly census records that might help. Also if anyone has these names in their tree, I'd love to hear from them. Alan Sturgess ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.