Two things: First, thanks to all of those who answered my question about "spam". Second, in an earlier message, I mentioned that I have volunteered to transcribe census data to be posted on-line at a later time. This gave rise to several personal replys, with questions that I am not fully able to answer. To clarify... o I am relatively new at this... I don't have a web site or anything... and I've never done this work before. I happened to "volunteer" by contacting the individual who has transcribed and posted a number of census records (several states) of slave/"colored" census. I have particular interest in Macon Co., AL and there are few records available on-line for the county, so I thought I would try and get something started. There is a web site for this data: <A HREF="http://www.prairiebluff.com/aacensus/">African-American Census Schedules Online</A> o I do not know the process for converting the transcribed material. The data, I believe, were obtained from the state archives, copied from microfilm, probably for a fee. As a volunteer, I am merely typing up the photocopies in a straight wordprocessing program. I will then forward the data to my contact, who will do the actual conversion for the on-line posting. o For those of you interested in volunteering for transcription work, I recommend that you start with US GenWeb, which invites volunteers to do census and other transcriptions. Instrucations are provided at their web site: <A HREF="http://www.usgenweb.org/projects/projects.html">The USGenWeb Project - Special Projects</A> ...or contact the individual state coordinator through GenWeb, who may be able to provide you with a specific individual to work with, if you've got your hands on a particular census record. o There are various other web sites, where individuals or organizations have tried to make census data more widely available...some are more complete than others. Here are a couple. You can try contacting the home page/site manager to see if they are interested in your assistance. <A HREF="http://www.colorado.edu/libraries/govpubs/debbie/cover.htm">Census Schedules</A> <A HREF="http://www.prairiebluff.com/aacensus/">African-American Census Schedules Online</A> Good luck and thanks for your participation. Annette Researching: Harper, Speed, Leonard/Leonard (Nat. Amer.), Tarver, Lane, Greene, Chappell, Krouse, Austin, Besteda, Patrick...all found in AL counties.