Census research can be a little tricky in a county such as the old Orange. You really need to know the area involved and when and if it split from Orange. There is an index for the censuses from 1790 to 1850 on the Orange County NCGenWeb archive page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm There is also information on these pages that show the breakup of the county. It is my understanding that the original 1790 census of Orange was lost. What is available was reconstructed from tax records. Many times I see someone say that a person was in the county in 1810 and not in 1820. The forget that the census is taken where a person actually is - not where they live. They could have been on a trip, in a hospital in another county etc.. Just because a person is not on the census for a particular year does not mean that they did not live there. Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list See my Ancestors at - http://www.trailerpark.com/tango/lrnoah Gedcoms & other data are at - http://members.tripod.com/~lrnoah Florence Co,SC GenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scfloren Orange Co, NC GenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1400 databases on line