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/1268.1 Message Board Post: The Tanner families are both living in Mich. in 1870. They live next to each other in Hillsdale county. 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