This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Robinson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EBB.2ACE/2531.1 Message Board Post: It would be helpful to know what decade(s) to search in for all of that information. If he was alive in 1880 you could check the free, online 1880 census for him: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp