For anyone who may have the desire to search microfilm records of the 1830 census for "select" counties of Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee, I recently took advantage of a free trial of the Broderbund World Family Tree Maker Family Archive CD315. This CD has over two million census records that were gathered from various U.S. counties in 1830. It is by no ways a complete record of the census, but it may be helpful to some of you. The CD lists the name of the head of the household, followed by the city or township, county, and state. It then shows the page number of the census record taken for that particular city or township. You can use this information to greatly speed up the time spent scrolling through microfilm by not having to read last names until you reach the page that is listed. I only did a search on the above states, since that is where our Pyle ancestors were known to possibly be around1830. FYI, my wife, Bonnie K. Pyle, is the great grand-daughter of Thomas W. Pyle (1848-1907) who lived in Lawrence, County, MO and the great great grand-daughter of Benjamin Pyle (1815-1875) who we believe was born in Christian County, KY. Peggy Sue Pyle is also working on this same line and we have been sharing (mostly her sharing with me) information. Anyway, here are the names that I recorded, followed by location, and census page number. To save typing, I only show first names. The last name will be Pyle in all cases. If two or more page numbers are shown, it indicates more than one person with the same first name in that county. ILLINOIS: Abner Perry county 121 John Perry county 121 & 123 Samuel St. Clair county 124 William Perry county 125 KENTUCKY: Abner Christian county 016 Nicholas Calloway county 194 Nicholas Hopkinsville, Christian county 021, 023, 004 Sarah Hopkinsville, Christian county 005 Thomas Christian county 017 William Calloway county 190 William Christian county 022 William, Jr Christian county 018 MISSOURI: William Wayne county 047 TENNESSEE: John Sumner county 37 John Tipton county 87 Joshua Sumner county 38 William Bledsoe county 70 William Sumner county 38 Please note that the counties shown are by today's boundaries. It is very possible that some of the county names may have changed since 1830. Good Luck with this little item. Let me know if this helps any of you out in your research. It will be a while before I get to put it to the test. Our local LDS Genealogy Library does not have a very large selection of census record microfilm. Someday, I hope to spend a few days at the West Coast branch of the National Archives Library. Good Luck Ken Soper, Apple Valley, CA