If you don't subscribe to the free mailing list at Rootsweb, IMO, you should consider doing that. They send letters periodically and tell us what's new out there. This is a piece of one that just came in, and I thought you'd like the concise information on one website listing all those questions the various census takers asked Every Ten Years, which is the page title. Copying here the whole Roots paragraph because they explain better, and give another site for forms. Bj-Listmanager SOME USEFUL URLs. To learn exactly what sort of information was collected each year, take a look at "Every Ten Years" http://www.genealogy.com/13_every.html. From 1790 through 1920, you will find a detailed list of what you can expect to see on a census form. And, to help you keep that information organized when you are researching with the census, be sure to print a set of census abstracts from http://www.genealogy.com/00000061.html. Census abstracts are blank forms which mimic each year's census forms. As you carry out your census research, you copy the information you find onto these forms. This helps ensure that you don't miss any important information.