I got my latest edition of the Heritage Quest Bulletin yesterday and want to share their news with those who are not members. This is the old AGLL company (the microfilm lending library). This company is in the process of digitizing ALL of the original National Archives silver master microfilms of EACH and EVERY CENSUS microfilm. In some cases they are enhancing by increasing or decreasing brightness to make them more readable. These will be issued in CDs as they are ready, along with a couple of pieces of software to enable browsing and other things. You can read these on your own computer and retrieve items and paste them into your own documents. They claim to have completed 1790, 1900, 1910 and 1920. They project completion of all census by Sept. 1999. They also project a price of 19.95 ea... retail, 12.95 for members. Each CD will be the equivalent of an individual role of microfilm and have the original NARA numbers. This has blown my mind. If they sell them in the quantities I would expect, then the military records and pensions files will surely follow. Cooperatives to swap will spring up on the internet, along with a secondary resale market. The next millenium WILL bring a whole new world. IN ADDITION ---- They advertised the Ultimate Family CDs, which included Isle of Wight Wills, 1647-1800--- containing approx.. 30,915 abstracts of wills. They do not reference the source of these. This sounds, off hand, like a great many more than are in Boddie's book. That book has been my only resource so far. This CD is 29.95. Carol P. Martoccia 903 East Fifth Street Greenville, NC 27858 Pridgen Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 Pridgen Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl