Yes, Betty, they really are wonderful, aren't they? -- after seeing these online census pages I think that I will change my Christmas Wish List (for my Indiana Genealogy stuff) to: money for getting all of my counties' censuses done (Perry, Spencer, and Gibson Cos, IN) <ha,ha> But seriously -- if you have any extra bucks you can throw around and you especially like ANY county(ies) in Indiana you might want to "buy" some of those census pages from SK Publications. If we get enough persons to "buy" all the pages for a county for a specific year, then it could be made into a cd and be viewed online too. Like I told my husband -- I wish I was Bill Gates or some other very wealthy person so I could donate a million dollars and get LOTS of these census pages digitized across Indiana and the US -- but I'm not rich <alas> and for my family even $50 is like a million dollars now-a-days. <sigh> If you haven't visited the SK site it explains it pretty well how this works and then they donate the census cd to the county so it can be put online through the USGenWeb census project. I may have it slightly wrong as I am going by memory of what I remember reading -- but think it costs 75cents a census page (page a is one page, page b is another page) to make these images, then once they have all the images for a county and specific census date (say 1860) then they create the cd and it would be allowed to be viewed online as well as others can then purchase the cd for around $20 I think. Pike Co, IN has one census online already and I think there is a link off the census to the SK pages which explains this. Anyway -- if you haven't checked this out to see what we are speaking about -- it is the digitized actual page of the census and really is nice. Of course this is not indexed <yet> by surname and page that it is on, but this way YOU can choose to decipher the handwriting yourself. DISCLAIMER: I have nothing at all to do with SK Publications and my mention of your possibly donating some money to get these pages digitized is only because that is MY CHRISTMAS WISH that someone or a group of persons donates enough money to get at least one census for each of my three counties (Spencer, Perry and Gibson in Indiana) done so they can then be put online. Of course I would also LOVE to have every county in Indiana have at least once census online too. Judy M. >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >--------------954136078D082779695B085A >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Thank Michael and SK Publications for the Pike Co 1880 Census Images... >These are the first that I have viewed and I am amazed at how good they >are.... > > > > >-- >Betty a/k/a >Kyseeker of Kentucky and Indiana >kyseeker@dynasty.net >=========================== >Indiana State InGenWeb Coordinator - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ingenweb/ >Vanderburgh Co., In - http://www.rootsweb.com/~invander/vand.htm >Trigg Co., Ky - http://www.usroots.com/~kyseeker/trigg/trigg.html >Christian Co., Ky - >http://www.usroots.com/kyseeker/public_html/christian/christian4.htm > >