Jane, that rule applies to all of the 1920 census on ancestry.com. I recently discovered this trick myself and located tons of "missing" McCanns. I imagine it may be true for other years also. Also, I have found that you cannot trust soundex, I have found my McCanns listed as "McCarny" and "McKann" which didn't show up when I used the soundex option. If you have access to an index (genealogy library has them), it is best to locate the county and search all the Ms for possible misspellings. Leslie -----Original Message----- From: Jane McCann Walsh [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 7:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [McCANN] 1920 census via Ancestry.com Hi, Folks, Maybe I'm the last person to discover this, and maybe it only applies to PA, but I found that there must be a space between "Mc" and "Cann" in order to locate McCanns in the 1920 Census index on Ancestry.com --- the one that links directly to the census images. Oh, and annother note of caution: I put in too much information at first and couldn't locate people because I had entered Place of Birth as "PA" instead of "Pennsylvania!" Best regards, Jane new email address: [email protected] old email address: [email protected] ______________________________