I don't know if any of you have ever checked this out. I have a link to this site on the Hennepin County pages under "Census", but hadn't looked at it myself lately. Kathryn Kelly has been transcribing the 1885 Minnesota State Census, and has the following areas below completed. Check out her site http://kinsource.com/index.htm KinSource's subscription archives currently contain the following resources: 1885 Minnesota Census - Searchable Database (310,855 records) Hennepin County All schedules (including Minneapolis) Pope County All schedules Ramsey County All schedules (including St. Paul) Redwood County All schedules Renville County All schedules Rice County Bridgewater, Dundas, Cannon City, Erin & City of Faribault, Forest, Morristown, City of Northfield & Richland schedules Claudia Schuman - Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnhennep/ http://hennbios.tripod.com/index.htm http://fdlbios.tripod.com/index.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnscott/index.htm