Some of us are more clever at using search engines than others. I have not quite mastered using wild cards [asterisks] for census searches, but as illustrated by one subscriber to this list, they can be quite useful in searching censuses. I suspected that my English great-grandmother, who had returned from the USA to Bedfordshire after she was widowed, had some younger siblings who were still living ca 1891. They were not in the Suffolk village where their aging parents had lived and where their youngest brother remained and operated the family tavern. So--I used the surname Holmes and the birthplace of Saxmundham as my search terms. I had great luck!!! I surprised myself!!! The siblings, many of them, were then living south of the Thames in what was probably Kent. Each has an occupation, even the females. In the US, the problem is that the census-taker often misspelled the surname, and the family gave the census taker a different first name than the researcher knows. In my own lineage, the US census-taker left off the final s in the surname Williams. My helper told me to give her an unusual given name in the family, and with that, she was able to get some results. But the mistake still remains--no final s in Williams. E.W.Wallace