This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Zg.2ADI/769 Message Board Post: Hi, I just stumbled across a website that shows a number of persons with the surname NIHEN (also NIHAN, NIHON) in the 1880 Federal Census for McHenry County, Illinois. I have a surname that is quite rare ... only 13 of us in the US telephone directories, and I'm not related to a few because of name changes! Does anyone have access to the Census for McHenry, 1880, who would be kind enough to do a "look up"? One family is in Seneca on page 14, another is in Hartland on pages 1 and 20, and the third is in Dunham on page 14. I'm not exactly sure what this all means, but it is the information given on the Web. Any help or leads to this surname (dead or alive!) would greatly be appreciated. Many thanks, Joe