Dear Candy, Maybe you should ask just the 10 of us who have already paid for the 1900 census, how we feel about staying committed to the purchase of the census with the smaller than expected number of just 10 of us paying. I am willing to go the distance with just the 10 of us. I also am willing for you to set a deadline of 10 days, say November 12th for anyone who wants to go ahead and actually send their money to you. Once you receive the money you could add them to the list. This still gives anyone a chance to be a part of something wonderful and gives us a chance to have more than 10 people paying for the 1900 census. I didn't go in on the 1920 census because my family had already moved away by then. But you might consider making the 1920 census a separate project with a different deadline for payments. Maybe could make it a project for next year. Then the financial resources of Johnson County researchers aren't strewn between two projects simultaneously. You could maybe try to do one census every six months or one a year. I don't want my money held until December 1999 or until sometime in the year 2000 for you to place the order of the 1900 census. I think it should be ordered from S&K by the third week of November (this would give you a chance to let any checks you receive to clear) so we can have it online by next Spring. You have already done so much work and gone to so much trouble to get this accomplished. I hope that we all can go ahead and get this accomplished together. Sincerely, Wendy