This information may not be of much help in your search for Campbell origins, but you might try looking for Cora Campbell, born in Kentucky (county seems not to be specified in the search) in the online 1880 census index. This index for the 1880 census [you cannot see the image of the census unless you pay a fee to Ancestry.com] is located on this URL: familysearch.org (Be sure to spell family in familysearch.org quite carefully. There is an imposter website which has a double L and if you are not careful you get that usurper. I hate it!!! It seems like a scam to me. This usurper is a pay-per-view or some such device. Again, I hate it!) Next step in your online search: On the first page of the familysearch.org website, look for the image of the old-fashioned couple [their dress is old-fashioned]. Under that image, look for the phrase: vast collection [or some such--it used to be vast databases] A drop-down menu will come up: Choose census, which is about the second choice. Choose among the censuses the US 1880 census. (There are two other censuses--British and Canadian.) Type in your search terms, but don't give the search engine too many choices--it gets confused. Type in Cora Campbell, approximate birthdate, but give a range of about ten years. Type in Kentucky as the birthplace and also as the census state. (At first, I typed in John Campbell in Kentucky in 1880--176 or so hits!!!) Up will come about six Cora Campbells [lots of Campbells in Kentucky in 1880]. Look at all of the listed Coras, and see if one is your candidate Cora Campbell. When you find a likely candidate, click on the link and then after you find a likely person, look over at the right for the link to Household. Household will list [transcription] all the members of that household in which Cora is a resident, assuming she is a child. If I remember correctly, the census-taker asks each person enumerated where his parents (both father and mother) were born. Do not overlook this information. Sometimes this will give you a good lead on the birthplaces of the parents of each child. Note the birthplace of each child, as the family may have migrated from elsewhere to land in Kentucky--perhaps NC, PA, TN, or even IN. I am not sure how accurate this transcription is. The LDS did this work several years ago before outsourcing to other countries became the M.O. of all computer-oriented companies. (I saw my apple juice came from New Zealand and/or China!!!) If you are near an LDS family history center, you may want to check the Family History Library Catalog for filmed records for Montgomery Co. and other nearby counties. I find Kentucky tax records (real estate) are sometimes a good substitute for censuses, and even the early ones give you some good leads about your families. Some of the later ones will even tell you how many school age children are in the home. By the way, there is on the LDS website (familysearch.org) some research guides for all the United States and many foreign countries. These guides are excellent tools for helping you locate some appropriate documents (records) to search for your families. They will tell you of records which you may not have thought of. I have done a LOT of my research of various Kentucky counties by borrowing film from Salt Lake City through my nearby LDS center. I hope you have one near your home. Also, check with your local public library about 1) interlibrary loan of books - you sometimes have to read these books in the library, not being able to check them out and 2) whether they have any subscriptions to online databases for genealogists--such as HeritageQuest [not all the censuses are on this database] or Ancestry.com or genealogy.com Old county histories, although full of misinformation, give you some leads at times on how the county was formed, who the important citizens were, sometimes even give you early marriage records, and info which you will NOT find elsewhere. I found one of my ancestors in Jackson Purchase was the first gaoler [jailer] for one of the first counties in that area (ca 1823) Happy hunting! I had folks who were for a time in Montgomery Co. but ended up in Bath Co. E.W.Wallace