Diana & all, The indexed listing of the 1850 Mecklenburg County Poythress folks, alphabetically, certainly points out how the same first names show up repeatedly, doesn't it? For those researchers wanting to see these Mecklenburg Co folks in families, as well as folks in many other counties & other censuses, just go to our current Poythress Research website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~poythress/ and click on "Censuses" on the left side of the page. There you'll find all of these below, and many others. (& I would point out that in addition to a few misspellings in the below list, there is one typo of a different nature: Sarah A Poythress was actually listed as being age 18, not 47. She is listed on the Census immediately below Mahala (probably her mother, I guess) who was indeed shown as being age 47. Happy researching, folks. BPN = = = = = Diana's earlier message: See http://www.rootsweb.com/~vameckle/1850ix1.htm For INDEX TO 1850 FEDERAL CENSUS - MECKLENBURG CO., VA POYLTHRESS, Frances, 3 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Alzernon, 6 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Catherine, 45 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Catherine, 13 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Charles, 1 57 98th Reg POYTHRESS, David, 44 56b 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Edward, 52 63 98th Reg POYTHRESS, George, 9 56b 98th Reg POYTHRESS, George, 12 63 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Harriett, 16 63 98th Reg POYTHRESS, James, 17 56b 98th Reg POYTHRESS, James, 45 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Joshua, 21 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Lucy, 25 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Mahala, 47 63 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Mary, 14 56b 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Nathan, 19 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Penelope, 9 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Rebecca, 11 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Sally, 32 56b 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Sarah A., 47 63 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Thomas, 35 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, Virinda, 4 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, William, 16 62 98th Reg POYTHRESS, William, 5 62 98th Reg POYTJRESS, Wm., 4 59b 98th Reg