When the census information was recorded, it was written on separate sheets, not in a "book." The pages were bound together after the fact. Hopefully, and usually these pages were bound together in the same order the census was taken (or in the order the info was recorded). But that wasn't always the case. I've seen cases were neighborhoods, and even families were split. This is easier to detect on later versions, but why wouldn't the same hold true for 1820? Also keep in mind that the census taker wasn't the mail man. He could go in any order he pleased--along one side of the road, across a field, or up and down the mountain. I think it was also possible for him to sit in one farm house and collect information from the neighbors (lazy guy). I haven't worked the 1820, but I have looked at 1810 and picked out the pages were Lovettsville names were found. There wasn't any "town" of Lovettsville in 1820, so realize I was looking around a wide area (probably the entire north west end of Loudoun County. Brownwen could probably identify the pages that have "typical" Waterford names. Susan, can you do this for the south end of the county? Nancy Harvey made a list of the families who lived along the Fairfax Loudoun line in 1798. Some of these would be the same early Guilford/Sterling families. Maybe with the help of a few others we could make a general page guide to neighborhoods. Ms. Marty Hiatt, CGRS "Document what you find, listen to what you are told, and especially, love and respect your work." John Morris CGRS is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lois Masters <ljmasters@yahoo.com> To: <VALOUDOU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 5:29 PM Subject: [VALOUDOU-L] Evaluating the 1820 Census > Fellow researchers: > > Is there any guide to the physical location of > residents in the 1820 Loudoun Co., Virginia Census. > That is, is it know if certain pages are the Waterford > residents; certain pages are Leesburg residents or in > what parish these people may reside. > > Thanks for any help you may be able to provide. > > Lois > > ===== > My personal website: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~virginiawesttooregon > The complete database of our family history: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familylibrary/ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > ______________________________