Is it possible that they were wards at a home that would today be catagorized as a foster home and were thus considered as inmates? Jerry On Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:48 EST [email protected] writes: >Thanks, Wayne, for the notification of the 1860 census. I spent some >time >there yesterday and was wondering why the census taker listed children >as >"inmates"? Anyone have an idea? Too bad Mr. Thomas (census taker) >discontinued >his listing of county of birth after the first few days. It's great >information. >Jan > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]