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I noticed that you do genealogy. Did you hear that the US 1880, along with the 1881 British and Canadian censuses were put on familysearch.org a couple of weeks ago? My mom does a lot of genealogy also, and is just thrilled that the censuses were added to that site.

I have been extremely blessed that I have found my dad's family back to the late 1600's and my paternal grandfather's family back to about the same time period. One of my cousin's wife was the one who did the research on my mom's side. I left a message on my husband's family name site on GenForum about 2 years ago and I got an email and found all the info on his dad's side back to 1613. They were into horse racing in VA and moved further south. Some of the names I am working on in no particular order are: Criddles, Ganns, Longs. Byars/Byers, Wootens, Gables, Wilkes and there may be some I missed. I am learning a lot and sure do appreciate all the hard work these ancestors did to help settle this country. There are several sites which have censuses. One is Rootsweb and another is usgenweb. I use Ancestry.com and Family Search the LDS site a lot.