> Great. I have a few photocopied pages of the 1825 and 1835 census. Tell me > exactly who you are looking for on the off chance that I may have copied the > page you might need. Marsha Marsha, Your offer is very kind. The person I'm looking for is a Benjamin W. Brown, born c. 1806 and who moved from what was probably Tompkins County in 1838. I'm not sure where he lived in Tompkins County, which is why I'm starting with the census. The only hint so far is that it was in Perry City (Hector), and that his children ended up in Watkins Glen, which subsequently were in Schuyler Co. I can't find any Benjamin Browns in Tompkins Co. until 1830. In 1830 there is a Benjamin Brown from Newfield and from Ithaca, and in 1840 there are Benjamin Browns from Dryden and Newfield. This probably makes three Benjamins, of which so far I have checked one (Ithaca), and he is not the Benjamin I'm looking for. I'll do the Dryden and Newfield Benjamins in the next few days. Let me raise a question if I may. I looked at the NY Census index for 1820, 1830 and 1840 and on that basis took a look at an actual record for the Ithaca Benjamin via Heritage Quest. I'm trying to reconcile the years. Officially there was a federal census in 1810, 1820, 1830, and 1840, but at the Tompkins County level, it seems to have startd with 1825 and 1835. How are these different datings to be reconciled? If these are the same as the 1820, 1830 or 1840 federal census, then I seem to already have a way to access the full census, but otherwise I've not been accessing the right records. Haines Brown