The USGenWeb Project has it's own Census Projects that you should take a look at. It might also be helpful to post queries on the USGenWeb County page where your ancestor lived. Someone out there just might have the answer. Check out our Queries page to learn what they are and how to make them most effective. If you are serious about this hobby and plan to continue as far as you can, you will probably want to invest in a computer program for genealogy.
Computer can do the most wonderful things for the genealogist.
They can keep track of ALL that paper, they can group families and print out the Family Group Sheets, you can do ancestral or descendancy charts. You can cross reference, scan in photos and save those, and so much more. They offer an assortment of forms that are quite useful, but all require Adobe Acrobat to be printed. You can download this from the site. Research Calendar Research Extract Correspondence Record Source Summary Forms from The Genealogy Mall.