Howdy all. Fred again here with another unusual genealogy site for the brave and daring. I don't know where I came up with this one. I had it in my bookmarks. It's been lying there to torment me, I'm sure. this databse is very large. It is according to the person who posted it, over fifteen megabites when compressed. I can't imagine it uncompressed. There is a readme file in the directory so you can click on it. I can't get the counties file to come up or some of the other ones. The directories themselves seem to work and the index seems to have reference to the names. It's all rather cryptic but you should be, with a little patience, able to navigate to the family you are looking for in here To quote the author. The history department at the University of Minnesota has compiled a 1% sampling of the 1880 Federal census. The original file (73 megabytes) is a complete accounting of the census enumerations of more than a half million individuals. This data includes information geared to socialogists and historians and most of it is expressed in 2 to 4 digit numerical codes requiring separate lookup tables. In order to accomodate such large data and more than 107,000 files, I have had to create a rather extensive directory structure in the form of: /state.or.territory/county.code/enumeration.district/filename Here is an an entry from the index: HALMAN CHARLES WI/1110/0256/106488 Charles HALMAN is found in the State of Wisconsin, county code 1110, which happens to be Sauk County, enumeration district 0256. The file name is 106488. The paths are relative to /pub/1880/. To download the file in which Charles Halman appears, issue this FTP command: get /pub/1880/WI/1110/0256/106488 Each file lists every person in the household in the same order as they appeared in the census. The two-letter postal codes for the states are used as directory names. These are the codes I devised for the directory names representing territories: AT - Alaska Terr. NT - New Mexico Terr. DT - Dakota Terr. UR - Utah Terr. IT - Idaho Terr. WT - Washington Terr. MR - Montana Terr. WR - Wyoming Terr. Good luck. Hope some of you can find some relatives in this thing. ftp://ftp.genealogy.org/pub/1880/ http://www.alaska.net/~fsalter Home Page of Fred and Mary Salter in Eagle River, AK mailto:fsalter@alaska.net http://www.alaska.net/~fsalter/html/surnames.html SURNAME Listing now 14,531 names. My wife's names In mostly in Tennessee: CARNAHAN, COOL, EVANS, GREEN, GIBBS, HAND, HOLLOWAY, LOMBARD, LOWERY, MILES, MORRIS, NEWBY, PICKNELL, PROCTOR, PUGH, REYNIER,SIMS, TEITURIER, THURMAN, WALDEN, WALKER, WALLACE, WILSON, YOUNG My Names mostly in England: BAYER, CARTER, DORRICOTT, EVANS, FOLDING, FOWLER, GARBETT, HUMPHERSON, JACKSON, JORDAN, KARACSONYI, MILLARD, PARTON, PERRY, SALTER, WILLIAMS