Hi Wes, Thanks for the census link. I hope to get alot from it. I seem to have been really busy this past year but doing what I'm not quite sure. All of my genealogy was getting more and more unorganized and harder to deal with. Another of our cousins sent me a book about organizing genealogy "paper" so for the last 2 months I have been working on that. It has really helped me. It centers around 9x12 envelopes and 5x7 index cards and is all cross referenced. I am really interested in the Vestals and the Civil War and have index cards for 140+ Vestals who served during that war. I am going to put them all in a scrapbook along with any pictures, family info, etc. that I have about them. I am doing the census study because alot of the Missouri Vestals are not yet connected to the North Carolina Vestals even though I think that they should be. I have been making charts for all of the census records that I have from the years 1790 until 1840 when they only listed the name of the head of household. Figuring out who all of the nameless people are is the hard part. I am going back through my Quaker records first. Anyway, you can see why I need help collecting census records. I would go blind looking at all of that micro film myself. Anyway, did you ever connect your Vestals to North Carolina? What would we do without computers and the internet!! Gotta go, Hope to hear from you again soon, Barbara