Hi Dorothy, To elaborate on the other responses you received, most of the 1890 population schedules were destroyed or badly damaged by a fire in the Commerce Department in 1921. There are a few surviving fragments from Alabama, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, and Texas. There are some surviving non-population schedules including the Veterans schedule enumerating Union Civil War veterans and widows of Union Civil War veterans which may be of use if your relatives were Union veterans. Not as much information as the population schedules, but at least a name, a location, and info on military service that could lead to pension and service records. Those schedules are available online at Ancestry.com. BUT those of us with Schuylkill County ancestry are luckier than most. A Directory of the eleventh census of the population of Schuylkill County : giving the names and ages of males and females, published by cities, boroughs, wards, townships, precincts or towns, in connection with a business directory of the same was published in Lebanon, Pa. by E.E. Schartel in 1891. The directory did not publish all of the information that the census collected, but it does provide name, age, and occupation of the head of household and the males in the household. Names only are provided for the females. A digitized version of the directory is available at Ancestry.com in their Family and Local Histories collection. AND some wonderful Schuylkill County GenWeb volunteers have transcribed large portions of the directory and made them available on line free at the Schuylkill County USGenWeb site http:// www.rootsweb.com/~paschuyl/schuylki.htm. It looks as though North Cass Township and part of South Cass Township are online but not Minersville. Hope this helps, Lois Mackin Plymouth, Minnesota On Oct 9, 2007, at 6:39 PM, paschuyl-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 11 > Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:44:11 +0100 > From: "dorothy higgins" <proactive@base1778.freeserve.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [PASCHUYL] 1890 CENSUS GONE AWOL > To: <paschuyl@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <002101c80ace$4cf00c00$94dc4c51@oemcomputer> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello Roger. Thank you for your swift reply. I take it from your > tatement - "somehow saved" - means that something awful befell the > rest of > the census. > > What was it, fire or flood? Dorothy.