Dear Kincaid listers, If you would like to have your lineage identified within the 1880/1881 Census please email me your information off the list at [email protected] Dennis Von Ting has been the first to send me his information. The best way to do this is to find your ancestors in the 1880 Census and cut and paste them in an email to me with your known lineage. Lineages with DNA sample numbers will be identified with that number. If your lineage does not have a DNA sample number I'll come up with a six figure number code that will suffice until at which time in the future a DNA sample number can be supplied. Hopefully, this project will identify a great number of, heretofore, unknown lineages in 1880 Census. Anyway, I hope this project will be of great benefit to novice researchers. The 1880/1881 Census are now 130 years old. If an American Kincaid can trace back to the 1880 Census, the odds are likely that researcher can trace back at least two more generations before 1880 or at least find a direction for further research. Few lineages trace back 130 years before the 1880 Census to before 1750, but it gives a good direction by giving the birth place of the individual's parents. The 1880/1881 Census thus provides a middle point between 2010 and 1750. It may take me a while to incorporate this information into the Census records, so be patient. I've done a lot keying lately and there are bound to be errors. But I am constantly cleaning up the files. Sincerely Norman Kincaide