This site is really interesting - and it's free! http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/index.html It has statistical info about the US census records for 1790-1960. It shows religions, occupations, the usual census fields and lots of other stuff. You can pick and choose what you want to look at - and keep going back and deleting & adding. EX: 1860 census for North Carolina Total for NC: families 125090 free whites 629942 Lutheran churches 88 free colored 30463 slaves 331059 free population 661563 Total for Cabarrus County NC families 1481 free whites 7391 Lutheran churches 8 free colored 115 slaves 3040 free population 7506 Total for Rowan County NC families 2180 free whites 10523 Lutheran churches 42 free colored 136 slaves 3930 free population 10659 Guess where all the Germans were living!! 50 out of the state's 88 Lutheran churches were in these 2 counties! For certain censuses you can look at how many Germans, Asians, etc. Sharon Perdue Researching Hahn, Ritchie, Cox, Barrier