Hi Charles, I had wondered the same thing as especially, the 1855 state census for Tompkins County would be valuable to see. However, "Dick" Hillenbrand wrote to me and told me there had been a fire in Albany, NY in the early part of the 20th Century and that's how some of these county census sheets were "lost". He has a chart of NY State counties and their census availability. Upstate NY Genealogy: http://www.ny-genes.com/ny_counties/ Kathleen _______________________________________________________________ --- CHARLES MCCORMICK <CMCCORMI@kaneland.org> wrote: I have been told that no one in NYS has copies of the 1845 and 1855 NYS census for Tompkins County. They are supposedly lost. Does anyone know anything different than this? ________________________________________________________________ <bill.hart@mscsoftware.com> 10/24/2006 1:21 PM Surnames: Hart, Northrup http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4RB.2ACE/3238.3 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com