Today's Rootsweb Review announced the following new website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sctwigfc/. "Welcome to the home page for the Wigtownshire Free Census Project. This project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of the 19th century Scottish census returns. It is part of the larger UK Free Census Project (also known as FreeCEN: http://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl). For more information please read the Census Project FAQ (http://www.freewebs.com/mmjeffery/Census%20FAQ.htm). Uploaded returns for various counties, including Wigtownshire, may be searched in the UK FreeCEN database: http://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl." This new site includes links to: Wigtownshire Project: * 1851 Census progress * 1861 Census progress Scotland Project: * Scotland Project Home * Census Project FAQ * Search the Database * Database Search Hints Census Help: * Transcriber Software Pack * Victorian Handwriting Samples * Name Thesaurus * Old Occupations * Old County Names * GENUKI Gazetteer (Excellent) * 1851 Enumerator's Instructions * Transcriber Help Pages Other Links: * GENUKI Wigtownshire * Dumfries & Galloway FHS * Ayrshire Roots * Cyndi's List - Wigtownshire * Old Maps Co UK * NLS Early Maps of Scotland * Statistical Accounts 1791, 1845 Enjoy! Mary