For those that have time and want to help getting Bastrop County information online here are a few suggestions. The 1860 census is online but only in images. This makes using a search engine impossible. If you want to transcribe these, you can start with the index that is online, fill in the rest of the family information and the typed file can be sent to the rootsweb archives or the census project and therefore searchable. Newspaper pages are also online in images. You can type some of the pages up, save it using the date of the page, and it can be put on the page in the place of the image and to the archives to be searchable. Online images for the 1920 census are on www.ancestry.com if you have a subscription, with more years to come this next year. There are also cd's with census images on them that you can purchase. This way you can transcribe from home. I go to the library, print out the images from microfilm, then scan them. The only problem with that is it takes 3 prints to make a page, costing 30 cents to get a page of the census. There were so many travelers during the early years that someone may be looking for someone that was here and captured on the census but until it is transcribed, they can't be found using the rootsweb search engines. And then there are the commissioners court records that are in image form also. So, there is lots to do. The images are nice but hard to read and it takes longer to find a name or place, not being able to use the browser's find feature. I would suggest that if someone wants to transcribe some of these documents, just let us know so there won't be duplicate work efforts. If you Dena and Lisa want to work on a project together or with others, then the complete project can be done faster. And thank you!! Tammy Owen Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator Bastropcc@aol.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm http://hometown.aol.com/bastropcc/myhomepage/family.html (new site) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html