twilight33 | Causing a ruckus as usual

Genealogy has been on the back burner for the most part since I started grad school but finding my direct ancestors prancing around Texas in 1880 (ok, farming) in the same county my school is at necessitated getting my butt in gear to uncover as much as possible while I have student access to their resources.

I asked a simple question: Where was the census district located that they were listed in? It's snowballed into information gaps regarding census information in their Texana collection with a possible GovDocs (government documents) purchase of several reels of information in the pipeline as a result of me being nosy. Whoa!

By the correspondence between the different searchers, you can tell we are all on a MISSION now! ;-) (Hey, it's been slow during the break!!)

I think the staff is more excited than I am due to the absolutely phenomenal amount of research they've put into my question. Everyone from the State Library in Austin to a Census Guru has been involved and they're still not letting go of it. They have dug up additional tax records and a probable (now city) location about a half hour NE of campus that I'll go visit after class one of the days I'm there.