>http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/1890cen1.html > >go to this url and read the REAL story about what happened to the 1890 census records; it's very interesting. This part below is an exerpt: > > > In 1942 the National Archives accessioned a damaged bundle of surviving Illinois schedules as part of a shipment of records found during a Census Bureau move. At the time, they were believed to be the only surviving fragments.(26) In 1953, however, the Archives accessioned an additional set of fragments. These sets of extant fragments are from Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, and the District of Columbia and have been microfilmed as National Archives Microfilm Publication M407 (3 rolls). A corresponding index is available as National Archives Microfilm Publication M496 (2 rolls). Both microfilm series can be viewed at the National Archives, the regional archives, and several other repositories. Before disregarding this census, researchers should always verify that the schedules they seek did not survive. There are no fewer than 6,160 names indexed on the surviving 1890 population schedules. These are someone's ancestors. Ronni Croft-Howard Researching Burnett, Croft, Karels, McGrath, Welsh/Welch, Gonder, Krantz, Dudley, Parker, Pringle: www.geocities.com/heartland/fields/8162