In a message dated 4/6/2002 10:15:10 PM Mountain Daylight Time, rlucas@neo.lrun.com writes: > When was the first census taken in Randolph co.? Would there be one from > 1830 or 1840? Yes there would. Early census info isn't very helpful unless you just want to know if the male head of household lived in that county and how many children he had and the vague range of dates. Number of male children between 0-5, number of female children, etc, Randolph count was formed in 1787 so it would have been on the 1790 census also. States also did their OWN census aside from the Federal census. Sometimes states census info is more interesting than Federal. (State census varies from state to state so check each state out for what is available) Good hunting! Diane Wolford Researching: Appley, Asbury, Barnum, Bauder/Bader, Bowling, Briggs, Burton, Carr, Clark, Dyer, Ecker, Finch, Flannery, Fox, Grim, Hardendorf, Harman, Hawk, Hayes, Henkle/Hinkle, Keith, Marcy, Pier, Sawyer, Summerfield, Schenk, Shepard, Slocum, Strong, Teter, Tinkham, Thompson/Thomson, Walker, Whitlam, Wilks, Wolford, Wood, Woolever. http://www.treelines.com http://www.lineage.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- Useful sites: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ (Hints for starting) http://communities.msn.com/AGenealogyExperience (A Genealogy Experience)