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