Sandy, did you know that the LDS church placed the 1880 U.S. census online in October? Click on the census link on the left side of the home page at: http://www.familysearch.org Select the 1880 U.S. census in the box at the top of the next page, and you can then customize census searches in many different ways. It's fun, and was very productive for me with some late blank spots in my research. Adele/Seattle