This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2FC.2ACI/1528.2.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi Peggy.......how did you manage to search the 1880 census....was it the federal? Nothing much is indexed there. Either that or I'm dumber than I realized. Cynthia