There are some Ancestry search techniques that may help you find that hard to find ancestor in the census. The Ancestry search supports wildcards plus advanced searches called "exact match" and "ranked search" . If you can't find your ancestor right away, these search techniques should help. To learn how to use wildcards, "ranked search" and "exact match" search techniques plus free access to the 1920 census, see http://www.searchforancestors.com/free1920census.html This should help you get the most from the free 1920 census. Hope this helps, Kathi > I don't know if anyone else has had these problems (on any census reading > not just 1920) but for instance my line of SINEX has been shown as LINEX, > FENIX, SENIX and other variations which lookded really "wierd" but the > way > they thought it was - it depends on who/how they read/deciphered it ~ > just > a thought ~ > Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington) >