New York State did a census in 1855 that listed all the residents in the household, in fact there is also an agricultural census, so if your ancestor was a farmer, you could find out the crops and animals he raised. The NYS census for that year gathered the following info: of what material the house was built, value, name of every person in the household and relationship to head, age, sex. color, in what county of this state, or what other state or foreign country was each resident born, if married or widowed, years resident in this city or town, profession, trade or occupation, whether native or naturalized or alien, persons of color not taxed, owner of land, whether deaf, dumb, blind, insane or idiotic. The agricultural census asked 108 questions. I think that the films of the New York State Census is available at the LDS Family History Centers, but I have not ordered those from there. I looked at the actual census books at the county building in Buffalo, NY for Erie County, and at the historians office for Cattaraugus County, NY. I believe I did look for the census in the FHC catalog and it was difficult to find, but I did eventually find it. Now if I can just remember how.... Barbara Hawks Giezentaner bgiez@juno.com Saline MI Searching for Nathaniel and his son, Rev. Friend FREEMAN in Jefferson Co., and Friend's wife, Catherine STEWART/STUART On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:02:26 +0200 "Jeff & Gina" <jeffgina@bunt.com> writes: > I am having problems with my great grandfather William Henry Hill > who was born in 1840 in Jefferson Co. His parents were Amos Hill > & Ursula Wheeler. Their family lived in Jefferson Co. since > Revolutionary times until 1858. I thought I found a lead with > the 1830 & 1840 census, but didn't realize they only list the > head of household and tally up the males and females in the > house, so it was too vague to know if this was the correct Amos. > > Does anyone have any advice where I can look for more help? I am > stationed in Germany and exhausted all the free lookup volunteers > who couldn't turn up much more than the census indexes. > > I'm hoping I'm on the right track with the Amos in Lyme, but like > I said, not sure, if anyone can offer any advice, let me know! > Jeffrey W. Scott > jeffgina@bunt.com > http://www.bunt.com/~jeffgina/ > > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >