This is an obvious tip but might help locate our ancestors. If we're pretty sure we know he or she was in a particular county but can't find him listed in the index - do a door by door search of the county. Now, this might take you a little longer, but as we know, indexes have built in problems. They were prepared by someone who had the same trouble as we do in reading the handwriting (many times indexed by someone who has no knowledge of the county at all); the microfilm might have been faded, had coffee spilled over that line - who knows! In looking for my own mother, I couldn't find her in the 1920 census and I know exactly where she and her family lived. She had been indexed as a male and her name so clobbered that I never would have found her. To make it more interesting, her brother was indexed as a female and his masculine first name turned into a female name by the addition of an "a" to his first name. So - take the time to really read these census records; it can pay off! Sandi Sandi's Puzzlers: http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php Sandi's site: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky