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>> Is there anyway you can search neigbors in 1880 census on the other site???
Yes indeed. According to the news item on Yahoo! yesterday, it took volunteers at the LDS church 17 years to get the 50 million names from the 1880 census transcribed and indexed. They did a bang-up job. Once you find an individual, you can click on "Household" to get a neat little table showing everyone in the household, their age, relation the HoH, birth place, occupation and parents' birthplace. This "Household" window doesn't depend on surname; it shows people whose relation to the HoH is "servant", "boarder", "son in law" or "other".
From the household screen you can click on either "Next household" or "Previous household". You could, I suspect, click through the whole neighborhood, one household at a time, from the comfort of your home, just by continuing to click on "Next" or "Previous".
Doing so would give you hints as to where spouses came from, if you are in a rural area. You can also get an idea of what kind of neighborhood it was from the occupations, surnames and parents' birthplaces; was it full of immigrants, or established settlers? Were they Irish, English, Norwegian? Any freed slaves in the area? Were most people farmers, artisans or laborers?
Their search engine will let you find every PACK in the county, if you want; the state, too, but there is probably a limit on how many individuals it will return.
Make up a plate of sandwiches, turn off the TV, go to
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp
and start looking people up. It is a wonderful site.
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