In a message dated 04/22/2000 7:26:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, charvel@lemoorenet.com writes: << John Kavanagh/Kavanaugh was born in Lockport in 1847. Parents are Michael and mother Mary Dolan. Does anyone have access to the 1850 census? I would like to see if the family is listed. Sincerely Jeff charvel@lemoorenet.com >> Hello Jeff -- I went out to the ancestry.com site and accessed the AIS there. Here's some indexing information from the census database there. Here are the results.. you'll have to evaluate them based on what else you know about your people. Didn't see Niagara Co at all for these surnames in 1850.. but as you know, this is but one datapoint! So, here's what the online index gave back: Searched on: KAVANAUGH, John in NY Got back: 2 matches for Fed Census 1790-1890 > 1 for 1870 - Kings County, NY > 1 for 1830 - New York County, NY Got back: 1 match for NY State Census, 1915 > 1 for a John B Kavanaugh - Election District 1, Ward 8, Pg 8, Line 21 Searched on: KAVANAUGH, Michael in NY Got back: 4 matches for Fed Census, 1790-1890 > 2 for 1860 - both in Albany Co, NY - one for a Michael and one for a Michael J. > 1 for 1850 - Monroe Co, NY > 1 for 1830 - New York Co, NY Searched on: KAVANAGH, John in NY Got back: 10 matches for Fed Census, 1790-1890 > 2 for 1870 - both in Kings Co, NY > 5 for 1860 - John D in Monroe Co, NY - and 4 John in New York Co, NY > 3 for 1850 - all in New York Co, NY (2 in NYCity Ward 17 and one in Ward 9) Searched on: KAVANAGH, Michael in NY Got back: 6 matches for Fed Census, 1790-1890 > 1 for 1870 - Kings Co, NY > 4 for 1860 - 1 for Cayuga Co, NY - 2 for Monroe Co, NY - 1 for New York Co, NY > 1 for 1840 - Monroe Co, NY Good luck! debbie CAhobbies@aol.com