Thought I would share a great find from one of the other lists I sub to. A fellow genealogist, Gary Minder, on another list has generously created an excellent FREE spreadsheet to record the mountain of census data accumulated on paper over the years. It makes it possible to have electronic copies of records for ease of organizing, manipulation, transport and backup. "The spreadsheet has a separate page for each census year from 1790-1920, as well as Soundex pages for 1880-1920...great for tracking a single family through the years." He used Microsoft Excel 97 to create the spreadsheet and kept it simple so it should be compatible with most any recent spreadsheet software out there "The spreadsheet is bare except for the formatting on each page to match the particular census year data fields. No actual census data is included." "The URL is http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~minder/ and you can also get a look at some screen shots of the spreadsheet and read a Frequently Asked Questions." This free spreadsheet and website were created by Gary Minder sdkhaki@hotmail.com Enjoy...Barb Marcovecchio in Savannah,GA