hi, Try this location. It might work for you. It is not an ftp location to start with. I have nothing to do with where the census is located. It is part of the US GEN Web Census Project and that is where all of their census listings are located. Try this location and see if it will work: http://www.us-census.org/inventory/tennessee.htm Once you get to the above page, scroll down to where you find the 1850 Marion County census listed as "on-line" and see if you can get there. Maybe this will work. If so, I will repost the note on the mail list. Thanks, Noel