If the following is real, it should be a boon to us all. > Received this from another list, and thought I would pass it on. > > This information is making the rounds of the library world, due to the > American Library Association (ALA) convention about to take place in > Chicago. No doubt "subscriptions" to access the database will be > expensive, so genealogists will need to find out which libraries near them > will be planning to subscribe. > > > Colleagues, > This will be a big story. > > Heritage Quest is going online with the entire US Census, all 12,555 rolls > of film. The U.S. Census from 1790 to 1920, fully digitized and going online. > You can get more information at a demo during ALA in Chicago, on Saturday, > July 8, from 9:30 - Noon in the Hyatt Regency Grand Ballroom E, or stop by > the Heritage Quest booth, #3625. It will be available by subscription to > libraries when it is up this Fall at GenealogyDatabase.com. This is expected > to be the largest data base of any subject on the Internet. Kackie Brubaker wrote: > > Hello Group, > I'm just asking if anyone has had the experience of looking > at an LDS microfilm of the 1870 Federal Census. I've been looking > thru the film for Penobscot County including the city of > Bangor, these pages are very faint. Many pages unreadable > even with the help of a magnifying glass. Does anyone know if > it could be possible that there might be another filming of > this census film available that would be readable or is it > hopeless? > > Kackie > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com