According to "Unpuzzling Your Past - A Basic Guide to Genealogy" by Emily Anne Croom, Miracode "gives family visitation number instead of page number but uses the same coding system as Soundex." I don't know about the other questions. :) Hope this helps. -Deb ----- Original Message ----- From: Betty Brown <betty524@hotmail.com> To: <TNRUTHER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 1:42 AM Subject: [TNRUTHER] miracode Could someone tell me just what miracode means when referring to a census?? And why all states do not have this whatever it is???and can the actual census records be bought on CD-rom's??? Betty