We need to remember that although the NARA releases the census on 1 April of 2002, most repositories that carry the census will not be able to have the reels that fast. It'll take time for copies to be made and sent out, whether to local libraries, or for personal home use. If I need to travel to a Regional Archives, I'd hesitate before making the trip, just in case the place was mobbed that day and the few thereafter, so that I didn't get to use the facility due to others ahead of me. I'm planning my list of films to order, and I know of one microfilm copy company that will do pre-orders starting in October. (Mine end up at the W. Dale Clark library in Omaha, if anyone is interested--where we've got 53+% of the released ones, and more on order.) Karen