Yep, it's addictive. It's like a puzzle that keeps increasing it's borders.
I'm assuming you went ahead and paid for ancestry. But if not, I've been having good luck with a combination of beta.familysearch.org for marriages and stuff, and it will find censuses too. And then HeritageQuest for the census images - it's free for Nebraska residents, just enter your drivers license #. http://nebraskaccess.ne.gov/scripts/hqpassword.asp The advantage of this is that it's super easy to save the census images - they are just simple GIF files, while Ancestry is more difficult. But the search on HeritageQuest is exact - it won't find spelling variations. So I use the "Ancestry teasers" search function search.ancestry.com to find out the spelling to use, and then HeritageQuest to find he exact page.
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I'm assuming you went ahead and paid for ancestry. But if not, I've been having good luck with a combination of beta.familysearch.org for marriages and stuff, and it will find censuses too. And then HeritageQuest for the census images - it's free for Nebraska residents, just enter your drivers license #. http://nebraskaccess.ne.gov/scripts/hqpassword.asp The advantage of this is that it's super easy to save the census images - they are just simple GIF files, while Ancestry is more difficult. But the search on HeritageQuest is exact - it won't find spelling variations. So I use the "Ancestry teasers" search function search.ancestry.com to find out the spelling to use, and then HeritageQuest to find he exact page.