This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wd3.2ACIB/1007.1 Message Board Post: Have you seen the 1880 census free at familysearch.org? Her parents were born in NY. Kate in Chicago ************************************************************** Joseph NOLEN Self M Male W 38 OH Blacksmith OH OH Rosalia NOLEN Wife M Female W 28 OH Keeping House NY NY Grace DERBY Niece S Female W 5 OH OH OH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Information: Census Place Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio Family History Library Film 1255051 NA Film Number T9-1051 Page Number 274D Look at this page - w/a niece named DERBY living with them -- there has to be some kind of connection here? Fidelia, Rosalia's sister? Fidelia Jeanette ElwoodMarch 02, 1872 in Norwalk, OH, daughter of Walter Elwood and Emily Munson. She was born October 21, 1838 in Geneseo, Livingston Co. NY, and died November 23, 1910 in Cincinnati, OH http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohfulton/Derby.html This might be the Grace living with them? Children of Hiram Derby and Fidelia Elwood are: 10 i. Elwood Walter5 Derby, born March 01, 1873 in Pike Twp, Fulton Co, Winameg, OH; died December 17, 1947 in Cincinnati, OH. He married Mary Ellen Booth April 24, 1894 in Cincinnati, OH; born February 07, 1877 in Cincinnati, OH; died January 31, 1942 in Cincinnati, OH. More About Elwood Walter Derby: Burial: Spring Grove Cemetery 11 ii. Grace Emily Derby, born September 16, 1874 in Fulton Co. OH; died March 29, 1894 in Cincinnati, OH. Here are the Erie Co archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~oherie/