ANCESTRY.COM TO PUBLISH 1930 CENSUS RECORDS ONLINE WITHIN HOURS OF OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT RELEASE PROVO, UT. Ancestry.com has announced an aggressive plan to publish digitized images of the 1930 U.S. Federal Census online within hours after the microfilm is released from the National Archives. On 1 April, the 1930 Federal Population Census will become available to the public. By law, census records are restricted for seventy-two years, but the wait is almost over. Since the census day in 1930 was 1 April, that is the day that two thousand six-hundred and sixty- seven microfilmed rolls of population schedules, including the names and statistics of over 137 million individuals, will be released for public access at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The 15th census of the United States, the 1930 census was taken just five months after the Wall Street crash on 29 October 1929, and will tell us about the preceding decade of the 1920s. Family historians anxious to have this invaluable resource at their fingertips will find a wealth of information, such as the names of all persons living in each home; their relationship to the head of household; if the family owns a radio or a farm; whether the individuals attended school or college; if they can read or write; each person's place of birth; citizenship status; and occupation. For the first time, digitized images of a portion of the census will be available online within hours of the official census release by the National Archives. Ancestry.com will publish additional images online every day and expects to have all images available online within three months. Indexes should be available online by the end of the year. ******************************** FOR A PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION OF THIS ARTICLE, e-mail it to a friend, or submit your feedback on it, just go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=831&key=A541101 and click on the appropriate icon in the beige sidebar. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.