Yes indeed there was a 1782 Continental Census. For VA you can find a little information on it in Hening's _Statutes At Large_, most kindly transcribed and indexed for us by Freddie L. Spradlin, here: _http://www.vagenweb.org/hening/_ (http://www.vagenweb.org/hening/) Not all of the Counties' 1782 listings survive. There is a transcript on the Census Bureau site which you can upload. I couldn't tell you how to find it by a site search, but ran across it on a page of links to publications for which there is **not** a page listing what all the publications actually are. They have very obscure filenames. On the following page, look for 1790m-02.pdf _http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/_ (http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/) Good hunting, Judy ************************************** Chuck wrote: Has anyone ever heard of a Continental Census of 1782? I have a friend that found a reference to it and some of her ancestors are suppose to be included in it in Virginia. The message referenced an index on Ancestry.com, but she could not actually find the census.