As the Census Records welcome page states: No indexes or typed transcripts currently exist online for the 1870, 1880, and 1900 handwritten census records for Robertson County. The only way to review the contents of these records at this site is to go through each census year line-by-line yourself. This is a time-consuming and difficult process since the handwriting is sometimes faint and difficult to decipher. Given the hours of research that would be required to look for a single name or group of names, no look-up service is available. Researchers can either review the information that is online themselves or go to a National Archives regional office, closest Jesus Christ of Later-Day Saints Family History Center, or other local library and conduct a Soundex search to determine where relatives might appear on census records for different years. Then, after you have identified where each record is located, access the census data online at this site and go to the correct year, enumeration district, page, and line number. Unless I'm missing something, there's no easier way to do it. That's why the microfilm rooms at the U.S. Library of Congress, LDS family history centers, & many public libraries across the country are usually filled with people searching through different census years to find their families. There are no shortcuts. The Census Project (above) seeks to bring online three remaining years of handwritten census records. At some point after this is accomplished, it is hoped that interested individuals will volunteer to create typewritten transcripts of all of the handwritten census years that have been and will be placed online at this site. During this process, an index to each census year could be created. The first step, however, is to get the handwritten census records for the remaining three years online. No efforts are currently underway at the Robertson County site to create typewritten transcripts or indexes for any of the census years that don't already have transcripts or indexes. -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Folsom [mailto:bfolsomfamily@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 8:12 PM To: TXROBERTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: {not a subscriber} 1880 census Asa and Julia Ann Anderson I have looked over the 1880 census but without an index was unable to find the family of Asa and Julia Ann Anderson. Asa may have been dead by 1880. If there is someone who is more familiar with the census and could direct me to the correct page, I would appreciate it very much. Judith K. Folosm