I am sharing this information because I have not seen it posted here. This is my act of genealogical kindness for the day, week, whatever!!! There just is NOT enough time in the day to answer everything that comes across on the lists to which I subscribe. Your query caught my eye because first,Trinity or Houston County lists have not generally been that active and second it mentioned Pennington. I live in Cherokee County about two miles from the Houston County line. My husband is related to about half or more of the people buried in the Pennington Cemetery. Some of his relatives's farms were on the county line part in Houston County and part in Trinity County. His main family names there are DOMINY, FONDREN, BRADLEY, BLACKSHEAR! If you are in Texas and have a library card for a library that particpates in the Texshare database system, you can get an access code from that library and access the entire database free from your home computer. I got mine through Kurth Me. Lib in Lufkin. On that database page is Heritiage Quest (PROUEST)Census, Persi, and genealogy and historical books where you can print out certain pages or the whole book. There are only indexes for 1820, 1860, 1870, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930. 1930 seems to be for Texas only. Indexes are only as good as those who transcribed them. Apparently there are some indexes on here that are not on Ancestry and vice versa. I have been having some really exciting researh experiences accessing Georgia and South Carolina census that I did not have in the past. They are apparently all there, just not all the indexes. Anyway this morning I can get the index up for Fosters, for Texas, for 1860, but not the actual census page which can be printed out. Unless you are really good at using the program for the larger print copies. to get the whole page, it is usually to small to read very well. Unually for all those collateral cousins, I have found it is just as easy to copy by pencil/pen and save the printer ink. Anyway I found 160 entries for Fosters, 1860, Texas. One in Trinity County, Robert 27 b. Ala. at Sumpter. In Houston County there are five with three possibilities, Wm 26 b. Ga., John 27 b. Tn. and Wm 31 b. Ala. This last one was at Randolph. Don't recognize off hand where that was located. The other two were at Crockett. Hope this helps some. Remember that the census has many opportunities to have errors and get entered wrong. It does not always match exactly. Vivian Cates, Alto, Texas -----Original Message----- From: Richard Foster [mailto:r.foster@mail.utexas.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:49 AM To: TXTRINIT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Finding my Fosters in the 1860 census I'm having extreme difficulty finding my Foster family in the 1860 Trinity County census and was wondering why they would have been overlooked in the census. They were listed in the Confederate Indigent Family list, so I know they were there when the census was taken. I'm especially looking for a G.W. Foster (age about 28-29, born in Alabama) and his wife Sarah A. Foster (age about 27-28, born in Mississippi). I would like to know what children were living with them in 1860, but since I am unable to find them, I'm not having any luck. They were living in Pennington (where many of my Fosters and Parkers are buried at Chita Cemetery) at the time. I have been through the 1860 Trinity county census many times without luck. Richard Foster Austin, TX ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237