>I am on break and was motivated by the release of the 1930 census to do
>some searching of family members in PA. Every way I turn I am stopped by
>a popup menu saying that in order to get any farther I have to register
>and pay $69.95. Is there any site that I can search without paying $70.00?
>Thanks for any info that you can give me.
>
You must be at www.ancestry.com <g>
Right now, they only have the 1930 images for Delaware posted. They are
not indexed, so you would have to know the address (or Enumeration
District) of the family you are looking for. Ancestry hopes to have the
entire 1930 census posted (as well as indexed) by the end of the year.
Most of the sites that will be offering the 1930 census, are fee-based
sites. I don't think any service has the census images posted for FREE.
It costs alot of money and hours to digitize the microfilm images, and
create indexes for each image.
Ancestry has censuses for 1790-1850 posted, fully indexed (which means
you can search by name). Images for 1860-1910 are posted, but not fully
searchable by name. There is very little left of the 1890 census, due to
a fire in the National Archives (?) in the 1930's (?). The 1920 census is
being posted currently and is indexed for about a dozen states.
www.genealogy.com offers the 1900 census, fully searchable, but again, it
is fee-based.
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