Hello Dana, Thanks again. Hmm...could you check the 1870 index for John Richards? Since I can access (slowly) the ancestry images (I almost always strike out with the AIS index, I don't know what I'm doing wrong), I could check those first. I imagine that John Albert Richards lost his mother at an early age, and that (assuming Albert Melville Richards was his father) his father lost several wives prior to 1880. If only I could find John Albert Richards either in Maine or Pennsylvania in 1870, I would have a hit, finally.... And since I managed to find another long-lost ancestor in Pennsylvania (moving around every ten years..., first Cumberland Co., then Rock Island Co., Illinois, then back to Washington Co., Pennsylvania), I figure if I keep plugging away with Maine, or New Hampshire (or maybe even Massachusetts), I'll find John Richards age ca. 5 someone in 1870. Thanks for your help. Best, Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dana Edgecomb" <nighthawk@psouth.net> To: <ME-CENSUS-LOOKUP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:12 PM Subject: Re: [ME-CENSUS-LOOKUP] 1870/Kennebec/Albert Melville RICHARDS > Hi Jeff; > I have only the index to the 1870 census. It lists two Albert Richards, > both age 14, born Maine and in Lincoln county. > One enumerated in Jefferson M593 Roll 549 p. 571. > One enumerated in Whitefield, M593 Roll 549 p. 715. > > The age indicates these are not the person you are > looking for. I also looked under "Richard". Do you > have any other ideas for possible spellings of the name? > Best wishes, > Dana > > At 11:59 AM 3/13/02 +0100, you wrote: > >Now that Dana (thank you, kind soul!) found Albert Melville Richards in > >1880, can some one help me find him in 1870, probably in Kennebec County? > > > ==== ME-CENSUS-LOOKUP Mailing List ==== > To Unsub from digest mail mode, send the command "unsubscribe" to > XX-CENSUS-LOOKUP-D-request@rootsweb.com (Remove the XX and replace it with your state abbreviation ) > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >