At 07:03 PM 1/29/00 EST, you wrote: >In a message dated 01/29/2000 12:21:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > ><< I know that the federal census of 1890 was destroyed by fire. > Did Ohio do a special census? >> >not ALL was destroyed, there was a CW veterans census too Of which about 2/3 survived the effects of the fire. Luckily, Ohio's was a survivor (the veteran's census of Kansas and those states which precede Kansas in an alphabetical listing are toast). Rollie