Once you find them at FamilySearch.org you have the exact spelling of the name and where to find them. If you have a Multnomah County Library Card go the the library website and open the databases section. Go to the H section and open Heritage Quest (you will be asked for you library card number and password). You can then search the census and view them. Not all of the records are indexed there but by using the browse section you can narrow your search down (1930, 1850 as examples). Also, a trip to a branch library you can use their computers and search the Library Edition of Ancestry.com for free. Happy hunting! I use these resources daily. Stanley R. Clarke -----Original Message----- >From: phirl@aol.com >Sent: Aug 14, 2012 1:17 PM >To: DSLeBlanc@aol.com, orforum@rootsweb.com >Subject: [GFO] Census info > > >Yesterday, we had a small family gathering in Madras. My 2nd cousin Doris and her daughter were there. Had not seen Doris since we were teens. Anyway her daughter says she wants to search her grandfather Delbert's family. I came home and found Doris in 1940 census Her grandfather Alex was in house. So then I started searching for other census info.. I found Alex in 1930 and 1910 in Oreg, but when i clicked to see it, had to pay. Seems like everywhere I went there was Ancestry.com with their fees. > >Rootsweb was free site I used 2 or 3 years ago, but now they seem to be controlled by ancestry.com. So how can she search 1930 and prior census on line without paying. Surely ancestry.com can not keep us from public records. I did most of my census searching on film at LDS > > >-----Original Message----- >From: DSLeBlanc <DSLeBlanc@aol.com> >To: orforum <orforum@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 7:23 am >Subject: [GFO] 1940 Census Update > > >Six more states are available at FamilySearch for the 1940 Census Indexing >Project, for a total of thirty seven. They are Washington DC, Arkansas, >Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and West Virginia. That leaves fourteen >still to come. While FS is behind Ancestry.com, which has all the states >up, people are finding better indexing quality on FS. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORFORUM-request@rootsweb.com >with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of >the message > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORFORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message