We have posted several how to articles on our site: 1880 census http://www.rootdig.com/census/1880.html Paging through the Census http://www.rootdig.com/adn/paging_through.html talks about a page with 4 spellings for one surname and some ways that happens and some ways to get around it. There are over 100 other articles here on a variety of topics: http://www.rootdig.com/adn/ Michael -- Michael John Neill http://www.rootdig.com/