Judy asked: Is there a 1841 and or 1855 census for Scotland. Would there be anyone who has access to one that would be willing to do a lookup? And Grant replied: You will find the Scottish census returns on microfilm in most larger local Libraries. There are census's for 1841,1851,1861,1871,1881,1891, and 1901. Most libraries only hold a selection of the census returns and only for their own area. These are not indexed so need to be searched by hand. This is very time consuming. If you are searching a sparsely populated rural area it is not so bad. Big cities are another matter. Hope this helps. I will add: But if you are not in Scotland, the census microfilm are available through your local LDS Family History center. Note that they are listed by Parish - and you will need to have some general idea of a location in order to use these. Later census (1881 & 1891) have been indexed by name and can be searched electronically - but so far as I know there is no (complete) electronic index for the early census records. If you know where to look - there are some census records (usually 1851 and later), where street indices are available for some of the urban areas - also on microfilm at the FHC. A Surname index may (depends on the area) exist in hardcopy - often published by local genealogy association. As an example (there are others) check out the following link (Scottish Genealogy Society) which sells a variety of publication - including some census index. http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/ click on "Books" to go to their catalog Sheila