The 1840 Stokes County census is often difficult to read. The writing is faint on many pages, some pages are torn or smudged, and several letters are hard to distinguish from one another. Nita Pearce, who transcribed it for us, deserves a medal for sticking with the task. This one's enough to give anybody severe eyestrain. I've been working through this census myself also, using the version from S-K Publications, a magnifying glass, and my personal database for the Stokes/Forsyth County area. On the premise that sometimes a second opinion helps, I've just uploaded a second version of the index, with some comments and a few previous unknowns identified. You can reach this annotated index, and all the other Stokes County census records, from a new web page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/stokes/census.html If you were looking for any of the following in Stokes in 1840 and didn't find them, take another look, using the annotated index. I'm not absolutely sure about some of these identifications either; some are just alternative possibilities. If you recognize any of the names and can provide positive identification, please let me know. The ones marked with * are the ones I'm most confident about. *Nicholas Binkley *Jacob Black *Christian Brietz William A. Crews *Susanna Doub Jacob Fetter George Foltz Adam Fulk Sr. *David Fulk *Noah Fulk Jr. *Greenville Hall *Christian Kerner Andrew Krause *Frederick Hippler Frederick and Michael Kiser Squire Lackey *Fleet Longworth *James Lyon George McKaughan Jesse McKaughan Stephen W. McPherson *Jacob Newsom *Charles Opitz *Dorsey Peddicord Andrew Pitts Sr. Martin Pruit *Sion Shaddox *Noah Speck Sarah Steiner Amos Stewart Katharine Strohle *Hiram Swaim Alexander Tacket Larkin Terry Wiatt Tucker *Augustus Vierling *Alexander Walraven Benjamin Weisner *John Wicker Elizabeth Harris [email protected] state coordinator for NCGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/