I'm hoping to find if anyone else either knows of or has experienced the same problem. I have a family that just won't appear on the 1850 or 60 census doing every kind of search imagineable. They appear on the 1840, their children s info by others list Henderson Co. as their birthplace, but no matter how hard I try in both Decatur and Henderson (as well as search clear across the whole US) can I find this family. I know that occasionally I'll have someone who seems to have avoided the census, but two census returns is a first for me ....does anyone know if there was a part of either of these census's obliterated, or not there??? It would be the Scotts Hill area and District 13, is where they should be..........I've also checked Decatur Co....here's my family, that I wish so much would show on the 1850 and 60 census!!!! Descendants of Jeremiah Austin 1 Jeremiah Austin 1805 - .. +Matilda J. Hart 1811 - 1880 ..... 2 Dorothy Ann Austin ..... 2 Andrew Austin 1834 - ......... +Margaret J. 1831 - ..... 2 Silas Austin 1838 - ......... +Martha E. Abernathy 1845 - ..... 2 Minerva Jane Austin 1840 - 1912 ......... +Hugh Johnson Kennedy 1833 - 1899 ..... 2 Henry C. Austin 1844 - 1899 ......... +Martha Jane 1847 - 1915 ..... 2 Charles Pleasant Austin 1846 - ......... +Joanna 1849 - ..... 2 Susannah Austin 1846 - 1928 ......... +William Kennedy 1837 - 1873