The 1930 Federal Population Census by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will be released on 01 Apr 2002. By law, census records are restricted for seventy-two years for privacy reasons, but the wait is almost over. Since the census day in 1930 was 01 April, that is the day that two thousand, six hundred and sixty-seven microfilmed rolls of population schedules will be released for public access at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and thirteen regional branches, this year. Please be aware that most of the earlier census records to used the Soundex finding aid. This personal name indexing tool makes it relatively easy for us to find our ancestors out of the millions of names in a given census. That is not the case in the 1930 census, with the exception of twelve southern states, which will still have Soundex for the 1930 census. Indexes using the Soundex exist for the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky (part), Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia (part). Below is the list of questions that were asked on the 1930 Federal Census: QUESTIONS ASKED IN THE 1930 CENSUS The 1930 Federal Census form called for: 01. Street, avenue, road, house number, 02. Number of dwelling house in order of visitation, 03. Number of family in order of visitation; 04. Name of each person whose place of abode on 01 Apr 1930 was in this family; 05. Relationship of this person to the head of the family; 06. Home owned or rented, value of home, if owned or monthly rental, if rented; 07. Radio set; 08. Does this family live on a farm?; 09. Sex; color or race; 10. Age at last birthday; 11. Marital condition; 12. Age at first marriage; 13. Attended school or college at any time since 1 September 1929; 14. Whether able to read or write; 15. Place of birth-person, place of birth-father, place of birth-mother; 16. Language spoken in home before coming to the United States; 17. Year of immigration into the United States; 18. Naturalization; 19. Whether able to speak English; 20. Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done, 21. Industry of business, class of worker; 22. Whether actually at work yesterday, if not, line on unemployment schedule; 23. Whether a veteran of U.S. military or naval force--yes or no, what war or expedition; 24. Number of farm schedule (Note: The farm schedules have not survived.). ________________________________________________________________ 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/.