If you haven't heard, Ancestry has put online, for subscribers only, all of the Accelerated Indexing Systems (AIS) published census indexes. These represent hundreds of printed books and cover heads of households in all of the censuses from 1790 to 1860, and some of 1870 and 1880, along with a few tax lists and state censuses. They can be searched by name or Soundex. http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search.asp Also some free searches here without being a member. A quarterly membership is only $19.95. Yearly basic is $59.95 https://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/signup/on-line.asp -- Debi Fort Myers, FL df620@gate.net - - - - - - - - - Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.