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    1. Re: Census on Line
    2. Margaret & Foss Smith
    3. According to the news release quoted in Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter for this week, "This fall, SierraHome's Generations brand and Heritage Quest will be launching GenealogyDatabase.com with the very first online collection of all U.S. Census images from 1790 - 1920. (1920 was the last year released to the public because of the 72-year waiting period. The 1930 census will be released on April 1, 2002.) Heritage Quest is also working on indexes for each year, and has already completed 1790, 1800 and 1870. This is a monumental step forward for online genealogy resources and will be of great interest to serious genealogy enthusiasts and newbies alike. The census is widely regarded as the most important primary source for tracing one's family heritage. GenealogyDatabase.com will be the largest collection of primary source documents on the Web, many of which will be searchable through Heritage Quest's painstaking efforts to extract the names into indexes which link directly to the digitally enhanced image pages. GenealogyDatabase.com will also be accessible through HeritageQuest.com and SierraHome.com. The site will be subscription-based, comparable to other genealogy sites currently online. We will update you on the pricing model when it becomes available. The most important thing to keep in mind is that GenealogyDatabase.com will be the ONLY site offering the entire collection of U.S. Federal Census images for people to access from the comfort of home." I, too have some of the CDs published by Heritage Quest, and have found them helpful. But at $14.95 each ("members price") I can't afford to buy all the ones which reference my ancestors, so I'm looking forward to having them online. The website describing the project is at http://GenealogyDatabase.com Margaret Lindsey Smith

    07/11/2000 05:51:22