Hi, all, With all of this discussion on Bill's site, I have a comment to make about another website. I am sure that most of you who have been doing this for awhile are aware that all of the censuses 1790-1930 are indexed on Ancestry. However, they also have many mistakes in transcribing names, therefore you will not always find your ancestor listed as they are really spelled. Why? Well, I am sure that all of you have looked at original censuses and soundex cards on microfilm---they were written by humans! All of us have different penmanship, and some of the handwriting on censuses is hard to read either due to old-style writing or poor penmanship or fading ink. Not to mention that the original census takers may have misspelled the names. So of course it will be difficult to transcribe these at times. You may need to search on Ancestry using various spellings and sometimes just look at the census page by page or use other methods of searching. I have found my Wesson ancestor! s spelled so many ways you wouldn't believe it---some not even starting with W! My points in posting this are 1]to encourage those of you who are using transcribed versions of any kind not to count on the transcribed version or index alone, but to use it as a guide and them to look at the originals, and 2] to point out that all websites that we use will have many errors. If we are responsible researchers, we will realize this and dig further. As to the post about the man who was transcribing newspapers and getting complaints about the volume of his posts: Last year I transcribed portions of a number of old Cleveland Co. newspapers from 1860s and 1880s and I posted them regularly on the Cleveland list. I never had any complaints about volume or number of posts, in fact only emails of thanks or requesting info/location of the microfilm. I am sorry this man has had complaints and I hope he will keep posting---most people who subscribe to such a list want this information and it is a service to other researchers. I enjoyed doing my transcriptions and it was a joy to know others were helped. Thanks to all of you out there who have helped me in my research, and there are many of you! Lynn Wesson Hillsborough, NC