In the present paper we investigate when Hausdorff matrices and generalized Hausdorff matrices, with the same mass function, are equivalent, as bounded operators on c and p .The generalized Hausdorff matrices that we will be considering are those defined independently by Endl [1,2] and Jakimovski [6]. A generalized Hausdorff matrix H (α) is an infinite matrix with entrieswhere α is a real number, {μ n } is a real sequence, and is the forward difference operator defined by μ k = μ k − μ k+1 , n+1 μ k = ( n μ k ). We shall consider here only nonnegative α. For α = 0 one obtains an ordinary Hausdorff matrix.For each fixed value of α, the corresponding set of generalized Hausdorff matrices forms a commutative, non-archimedean integral domain. (See, e.g., [5, pp. 615-617].) For different numbers α and β, the only matrices in common are the identity matrix and the zero matrix.