If they are the same as they sell - They are scrollable just like the micro film- one can not enter a name on a search engine. -You have to search page by page. Alice -----Original Message----- From: Ron & Sharon Buckley <texbuck@pdq.net> To: NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com <NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, July 07, 2000 9:02 PM Subject: US Census online >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. > > > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >