Sue- I don't believe anything is MISSING -- it sometimes takes creativity to find a family when you are trying to follow through from one census to another. In one case I found my York County family indexed under the wrong surname because the censustaker had put ditto marks instead of the surname and there was a servant girl (with a different surname) separating the parents from the children I'd been searching on--so they were indexed (due to enumerator error) under the wrong name. In the Adams County 1860 census I couldn't find my great-grandfather as a teenager--he wasn't with his parents. I searched and searched for every Henry MYERS in the listings to try to find the right Henry. I finally studied collateral family and found him living with his mother's sister and her husband as an apprentice wagonmaster. However, finding them was still difficult because the HANK family was misindexed as HAWK--an easy error for the transcriber to have made when he didn't know these families. These types of misindexing often make it difficult to find the people you are looking for as it did for me. Joan In a message dated 9/12/2009 12:42:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, socalsue_2000@yahoo.com writes: I wonder if somethings are missing from the 1860 census. I, too, have had no luck finding my g-grandfather, Forest Hall Thompson and his mother, Margaret Slonaker, in the Adams County census records. Margaret was born in Gettysburg in 1828 and Forest Hall was born in 1856 in Hunterstown. They appear in the 1870 census, but I cannot find them in the 1860 census in either Straban Township or Gettysburg. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what else to try? Thanks, Sue