Mr. J. Hugh Lebaron has made available his transcription of the full 1850 enumeration of the free inhabitants of DeSoto Parish is now online, and the slave enumeration will be available soon. Pending upload to the DeSoto Parish archive, there is an html version of the transcript available at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ladesoto/cens50.html The new page is also linked from the DeSoto 'front' page. This is a major addition to DeSoto Parish online genealogical resources. Thanks, Hugh! FYI- As some of you may know, the commercial genealogy site Ancestry.com is engaged in an ambitious project to scan and upload all of the decennial U.S. enumerations. Among what has already been scanned is the entire 1920 DeSoto Par. census. (To view the scanned pages requires download and installation of a plug-in (free), as well as purchase of one of Ancestry's membership plans.) Rgds., Judy