Could you take a look at the 1885 Kansas State Census. Pulls up the names at ancestry.com but not i

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Don M Thomas said:

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A van Helsdingen said: There'll be contractual reasons for this. If you're really interested, you could contact the archives in Kansas and if necessary make a Freedom of Information Act request for their contract(s) with FS and Ancestry. It's possible that as part of the FS-Ancestry partnership FS has agreed to not publish the index. Neither side, or the original government owner in Kansas, would publicly confirm or deny that- indeed Kansas may not even know.

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Amy Archibald said: FamilySearch only has the images to the 1885 Kansas census - not an index.
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/...

I struggle with this too - using Ancestry for this census.

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Tom Huber said: Ancestry has many yearly enumerations (mostly agricultural). While Ancestry may share some elements with FS, it certainly is not under any obligation to share all of them.

That is why I maintain an account with Ancestry as well as FamilySearch.