I just read something which may excite you, Karen -- The 1850 through 1870 (partial) and 1880 and 1900 U.S. Censuses can be searched currently at FamilySearch.org; all publicly available U.S. Censuses are already available on Ancestry.com. The LDS people are currently adding searchable fields to the 1920 index, and I've already noticed that fields which were not indexed before are now indexed on some of the earlier censuses. For example, a Rev. War veteran (Rev. John Clark) formerly of Maryland showed up on an Ancestry 1840 index even though he was not the head of household. He was living with his son Barzillia in Warren County, Ohio, but now appears on the index because he was a Deerfield Twp Rev. War veteran or pensioner. Also, new nineteenth century Philadelphia records have been posted online to coincide with the Philadelphia convention this week. These are neat developments -- everything online causes rejoicing in genealogical circles, right? Kathy