In a message dated 6/9/01 3:37:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, gungazo@ameritech.net writes: > <<<<<The complete 1880 Census transcription is now available by mail from > LDS at http://www.familysearch.org. You get all 56 CDs in a nice ring > binder, completely searchable. And the cost is just $49, and there is no > shipping charge. I've just gotten mine and it's an amazing set of data. > (Keep in mind that if your ancestors arrived after 1880 it won't be of much > use to you...) Many of the names are misspelled, of course (par for the > course if you've seen census records before.) So you have to do some > creative searching. In one case I had to search through 128 women named > Mary born in 1876 living in one county, but I found the right one. > > Deb Gunther>>>>>> Deb, is this one state? A combination of states? I have the Ancestry.com yearly thingie, $39.95, and I can search any census on line. Bit slow for my tastes, but, it works just fine. Sheila // Firehair