On the section of the 1820 North Carolina Federal Census covering Rowan County, the census taker has written notes in the far left hand margin to the left of the names of each individual. It appears that these names are last names that are associated in some way with each of the individual households listed on the census. The notes in the column are names like Marks, Wheeler, Mays, etc. I'm speculating that these names may be the names of the head of the "company" that each household was assigned to ( potentially giving some insight as to the geographic placement of each of the households ). If this is the case, this could be quite useful, since much of the NC census for this area was alphabetized, thus eliminating a portion of its usefulness for genealogical purposes. Does anyone know for sure what these names in the margin represent? If they are the names of heads of companies, does anyone know of a relevant reference book containing a list of these heads of each company and what area they were responsible for? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com