Hi everyone, I just read this on www.ancestry.com and thought I'd pass it on. I had no idea they were about to do this... Note that I'm not affiliated with the website, nor am I even a subscriber, but I thought if they are able to pull this off it will be wonderful. However, I know that there are many, many people transcribing census records manually right now and I hate to see their efforts go to waste, EXCEPT that their results will be available for free, whereas ancestry.com's will be $59.95/yr to access... From: http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/census.htm About Images Online Images Online™ will provide Ancestry.com members with access to more online genealogical information than ever before. Ancestry.com is dedicated to saving its members time and money by allowing them to view and print documents that have traditionally been stored on microfilm or are only available in limited numbers of archives and libraries throughout the nation. Going beyond the detail of indexes and information summaries, the online images provide extensive detail only available through original records. About Census Records Ancestry.com is preparing to post electronic images of every record from the U.S. Federal Census between the years 1790 and 1920. The census records, which Ancestry.com recently obtained from the National Archives, contain more than 450 million names. Launched as part of the new Ancestry.com Images Online service, once digitized the original census records will be viewable and printable online with an Ancestry.com Census Subscription. The first images will be posted soon and subsequent postings will bring hundreds of millions of images to the site throughout the year. Through Images Online, census records will more faithfully reproduce original documents than mere indexes or bi-tonal, black and white images available with competitive offerings. The records will be easier to read as they will be viewed in full 256 shades of gray. Census schedules represent the most important and sought-after group of genealogical records in the United States. The information supplied with each individual in the census allows researchers to determine family structure, ages, residence, occupation, and much more. Holly Knott in Bucks Co., Pa