This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mkB.2ACI/381.1.2 Message Board Post: You wrote: If you're in Spring, a quicker first trip than Fayette County would be the Clayton Genealogical Library (http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/clayton/). You can check their holdings of Fayette County microfilm/fiche before you go at http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/clayton/clmca22.html#Texas. - - Even quicker if you have a Houston Public Library card (I got one even though I don't live in Houston, I think as a county resident). From the Library Web site, you can access Heritage Quest, search and get census page images. http://catalog.houstonlibrary.org/validate/http:%2F%2F0-persi.heritagequestonline.com.catalog.houstonlibrary.org:80%2Fhqoweb%2Flibrary%2Fdo%2Fcensus%2Fbrowse