This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gFB.2ACE/1269.1 Message Board Post: Try this - 1870 Michigan Census = (Free, indexed and searchable) http://envoy.libofmich.lib.mi.us/1870_census/ 1880 US Census – The Mormon Church Files LDS (Free, indexed and searchable) Look for 1880 US Census on the left side of screen http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp Michigan Genealogical Death Indexing System (Free and searchable) http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/PHA/OSR/gendisx/search2.htm Jack & Marianne Dibean – Lansing Michigan Marriage Index Links = FREE http://www.mifamilyhistory.org/dibeanindex/dibean_county.html In 1880 Ruth L. Caswell is living with her sister Ellen and step father Muncy Pike. They are living in Ionia, Ionia cty., Michigan. Ruth is 14 at this time and would be 16 when she married.