Tonight I finished putting the 12th ward of the 1880 Fed. Census for Troy on line at my freepages site (see URL below). We now have two wards (also 6th ward) on line. That means you have 8,568 names to search which includes 1,547 families and 858 dwellings. These two wards are in the southern most part of Troy are are probably 80% Irish immigrants and their families. We are currently half way through the 9th ward which has a smaller percentage of Irish and includes more German, English and Scotch immigrants than the first two wards. People to thank for devoting their free time to transcribe all these records: Bob McConihe, Lynn Grice, Dorsey Clark, MaryAnn McConnell and Matt Bloomfield. Things to watch out for: misspelled surnames. This is caused by a few reasons... hard to read handwriting, enumerator couldn't spell the "foreign" name and many of the immigrants could not read or write in English. So, look up all the variations of how your surname might be spelled. This index is meant for a research tool. For full documentation, you should always refer to the source document, the census. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nymets/