Hi! >>RE: " ...I could check for an index listing as a member of Ancestry.com." Researchers please note, and save yourself the hassle -- ***** Ancestry has NO census data for Susquehanna and Wayne Counties after the year 1850. ***** On the 1850 Wayne Co. census, there is NO Sterling township. There is only St. Erling township (and it's missing people). Nothing on the Ancestry site tells you this info is missing. I wrote to ask why all our Dickeys and both sets of Smiths just disappeared after 1850 (they didn't ALL go to KS). It took three replies before they would admit the AIS index they rely on does NOT have that data. They showed no interest in obtaining the missing info for the database. (I also sent them the Sterling correction, and people missing from that census, with specific page and line numbers, but they didn't make the changes.) We belong to Ancestry, too. We've learned to read the full description of every database; many are much less inclusive than they appear from the names Ancestry gives them. You pay for databases, you get databases. There is no promise of quality. Caveat emptor. Elaine DICKEY/CUMBO dickey.pa@draac.com ======================= . Free greeting cards, invitations and reliable Web based email at The Migration Route Post Office http://freeyellow.com/members8/rivercountry/aypo.html - ---------------------------------------------------------- Email Provided By http://www.draac.com/ Free Graphics http://gifs123.tripod.com/