You can buy the 1880 census from the morman church for $49, it is fully
indexed by name, I love it
Thanks for writing,
Sandy in Florida
Media Specialist, Mulberry Middle School
http://schools.polk.net/mms
afn11720@afn.org
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everyone - Bill Cosby
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Suzanne Ng wrote:
> >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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