Thank you Laurie, Marie & Sheila. Laurie, I will try the Yahoo Groups list. Marie, thanks for the reminder about the 1895 state census being lost. For once, a typo has proved lucky. I misread my handwriting and should have typed 1875 instead of 1895. Hopefully the 1875 is still around. Sheila, thanks for your offer to look up Ancestry's city directories. Marie's response reminded me why I spent so much time in the Pawtucket library's reading room some years back. Those volumes yielded a wealth of info. To take you up on your kind offer, though, could you see if Ancestry's info shows anything on a Buskey family in the Pawtucket, RI area in approximately 1890-1898? Thanks again, Joan S. (NY) (Off to join the Yahoo Groups list; so that's where everyone went!)