Hi, You aren't going to find the 1870 census online, nor the 1880. Nancy Hughes (she's on the list) did a grand job of transcribing the 1870 Sumter County Census. Her book is available for sale at the Sumter County Genealogical Society. There is a copy there for use of researchers, plus she has one at the Sumter County Library and at the archives in Columbia. Cindy >>> "Cindy McClay" <pcmcclay@frognet.net> 02/16/00 04:53PM >>> To this notable list of researchers...Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the 1870 and 1880 Sumter Co. Census's online? Thanks, Cindy Mc ==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl