There were a lot of name changes that took place so it would be a little different in our research. Now I look at it this way: there is a slave schedule let's say 1860 Cabarrus County, N.C. and I go through it and I see first of all the name of the slaveholder and next to this column are other columns, one listing a number, a gender, and an age. Then there is the free schedule..now in that I just may be lucky to see an ancestor. Joseph