Forwarded from Quaker-Roots-L: Have you heard?? The LDS are releasing an extracted form (not scans of the originals) of the US 1880 Census on June 1 in a 56-CD set (35 of data, 20 of index, and 1 viewer) for $49.00!! Check with http://familysearch.org for ordering instructions. It contains 50.5 milliion names, twice the number on the Ellis Island Records, and covers all "38 states, 8 territories, excluding only the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma" then in the Union. "It is a fully extracted record, with every name indexed." "The 1880 U.S. Census is the most complete database published by the Church to date and contains each individual's full name, relationship to head of the house, age, gender, race, marital status, occupation, birthplace, and the birthplace of the individual's parents.... "[A] powerful search engine is included with the CD that makes it possible to find a person through 'bits and pieces' and 'wild card' searches. Bits and pieces means each category can be in a search. A wild card search is where one or more letters, such as the easily mistaken r, y and v can be replaced by an asterisk. The census also allows viewing of neighboring families." The 1881 Canadian Census is currently extracted and is being processed for finalization, date of release not known yet, but will be "soon." --DESERET NEWS LDS CHURCH NEWS, May 26, 2001, p. 5, Col. 1. Feel free to copy to others, as long as you retain the source info at the bottom of the article. Nancy in Utah "I collect cousins" http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~roney [email protected] Another person posted: I have heard that it will be on backorder until late summer, though. My local Gen Society purchased it (among other CDs) at the NGS Conference in Portland OR a couple of weeks ago.