In a message dated 31/01/2004 19:15:54 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Is it indexed on line or do you have to trawl? > There is a partial index, but as you can imagine a Welsh census indexed in the USA needs some lateral thinking in order to find some names and places, especially long ones like "Cardiganshire, Llanfihangel Gennau'r Glyn" which have been squashed into a small column by the enumerator, and are almost impossible for the unfamiliar transcriber to decipher. One oddity that I have found with the Ancestry and the 1901 Census is that the transcribers are foxed by Welsh double character letters. John Thomas Jones, John Lloyd Jones and John Philip Jones are often recorded as John Th. John Ll. and John Ph. Which have been transcribed as the surname prefixes Le, St, De and even Mc, so if you can't find a person who might have a second name its worth looking for John LeJones, Edward DeOwen, William StDavies or Mary McThomas. All the best Alwyn