Rachel: Have you tried looking under different spellings for CASEY in the census indices? I found a gr gr grandfather of my husband's (name: Sherwood /Sherod, Sherid, etc., JAMES) on the 1870 Barry County, MO, census index under SHERID, James rather than JAMES, Sherid (Sherwood). The reason: the census taker had listed his given name first rather than his surname as he had done for everyone else on the page. That confused the census indexers into thinking that his name was James SHERID (SHERWOOD). You might try looking under CASY, CASIE, KASY, KASIE, KASEY, and even KOSEY/KOSY/KOSIE, etc., in case the census indexers couldn't read the handwriting of the census taker very well. Some of the census takers were close to being illiterate themselves. Use your imagination and look under every conceivable spelling that the census taker and the census indexers might have used. You might even find them under CANEY or CORY, etc. As you probably know, you have to become rather creative at times whenever doing genealogy. The poor quality of the census film, the poor handwriting of the census taker, the phonetic spelling by the census takers, the peculiar pronunciations and illiteracy of the people being enumerated, etc., all contributed to the census indexers indexing names the way that they did. Of course, the census indexers at times made mistakes, too. If looking under all the conceivable spellings you can possibly come up with doesn't produce the desired result for you, try looking under the given name as a surname to see if it might be listed that way. It could be, too, that your ancestors were moving when the census was taken and they were missed by the census taker or they may have left the state briefly. You might check ALL surrounding states and also TX. A lot of people would move to another state and then move back to the state they had started from for some reason--perhaps because of elderly parents or other relatives there, etc. The best of luck to you in your search. Ginny ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!