Well, Teresa, I guess I wasn't thinking very clearly when I emailed you that census data. I should have explained. This will be a good time & place to do that, me thinks, so everyone can be aware of that possibility... The USGenWeb archives are one of the most valuable tools on the web. Although I knew about the archives, until that night I had no idea anything had ever been uploaded for Wasco County. Some counties have gobs of stuff in their archives. There isn't a link on the Wasco Co GenWeb site that will take you to the archives, so I never thought to go directly to the archives & check on Wasco Co stuff. I expected that if there was anything in the archives, there would be a link. I actually found the link on the Umatilla Co GenWeb page, but so you guys don't have to go through all that, I'll just give you a link to the main USGenWeb archives page. At the top, there is a link that lets you search the archives holdings by state (search for a specific name, which I just did for OLNEY and found TONS of stuff!), or scroll down to find the state you're interested in browsing. This is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ Or, for the impatient, here is the exact Wasco Co. archives address: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/or/wasfiles.htm Teresa, I didn't look through *all* of the census files that night, so your Thomas might be found in another precinct, or he might have left the area. It's a pretty sure thing, though, that he was out of the house already in 1860. I'm not sure if you meant you did or didn't understand what all the numbers etc in the listing meant, so I'll go over that here, too: Fifteen Mile,605,2435, Olney, Nathan, 35,M,W,Farmer,2000,300,Pennsylvania, Fifteen Mile is the precinct (I believe this is the 15-mile that is east of The Dalles along the highway, but there is another 15-mile *south* of The Dalles along the road to Maupin). 605,2435 are the census page & household #. After the person's name is age, sex, race (Nathan is white, Annette is I for Indian), occupation, Real Property value, Personal Property value, birthplace, and then a place to indicate if a child was a student at that time or not. There you have it. Since the Wasco Co census entries aren't indexed, you'll probably want to run a search at the URL I gave above for the states, but be sure to remember to check for spelling oddities, too. (note the new address for Cheri) Cheri puny@mail.com ************** -->> http://www.historysavers.com <<-- ************** ************** __________________________________________________ FREE Email for ALL! Sign up at http://www.mail.com