Ashe, NC 1820 Federal Census Transcriber's notes If you find your family in this census, I encourage you to look at the original microfilm if at all possible. This census taker's handwriting was very difficult to decipher and many of the well-known local surnames are consistently misspelled. It was impossible to differentiate between abbreviations such as "Jas." for James and "Jos." for Joseph, so your ancestor "Jas." may be listed as "Jos." Please consider this my best effort and a good resource, but if something you find here doesn't match information you have from other sources, by all means try to look at the microfilm.