This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Raven Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2RB.2ACE/8431.1.1.1 Message Board Post: There is an indexed transcription the 1870 census for the county on line at the county site under usgenweb.org. Visit www.usgenweb.org and click thru to St. Lawrence county. From 'select a link' choose 'Anne Cady'. Anne made that transcription available. Also be sure to check the indexed cemetery photos. You may find photos of headstones for these people. There may be further info in the 'births, deaths, marriages' from the Gouverneur Herald. If you can make a trip to the county courthouse in Canton, several of the NY state censuses are available there in addition to indexed land records, wills and probate. You local library may have a subscription to ancestry.com or heritagequest.com and computers with a hi speed connection to view the images. These services have census images (often not indexed). Gouverneur was (and is) a small town - you can search the entire town without an index. Hope this helps - Russ Sprague Kensington, Maryland