Hi Kelly, Yes, I get my "free" (property tax paid) subscription to Ancestry.com from the Columbus public library, allowed up to 3 logons a day, 1 hour each. Take a memory stick and download like crazy. I think the local LDS library carries Heritage, plus their FamilySearch.org (which is available to anyone on-line) lets you view the 1900 census and 1920 index summary. It will also flip you over to Footnote.com for other dates. However, I know a number of people who don't have or have given up their subscriptions, or live in towns that don't have free library viewing. Guess we've provided a few options. Lisa > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Census records - free > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:13:58 -0400 > > I get my free census form Heritage Quest, through my local library > subscription. It has a normal, advanced and by roll/page search. Check you > local library and see if the subscribe to heritage Quest. It still doesn't > have many 1930 census, but it's free and great images. > Kelly > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lisa Baker" <[email protected]> > To: "Cambria List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 12:57 AM > Subject: [PACAMBRI] Census records - free > > > > I've been searching through Internet Archive and came across a new toy, free > access to the US census. > > http://www.archive.org/ > > Only drawback, you can put in the year, county or state under Search, but it > didn't recognize any of the cities for Cambria county that I tried > (Barnesboro, Carrolltown, Nicktown, Spangler). > > These are the same digitized census records you see on Ancestry, Footnote or > LDS FamilySearch, minus index, and broken down by microfilm number. To do a > search, you will need to go through it page by page or jump through it until > you get to the county or town you're interested in, and then look at each > page attempting to find your family. This is how I found many of my > relatives, as the census taker either mis-spelled the surname, left off the > surname and the family was listed under the previous family's surname, or > the transcriber decided that a "T" was a "L" or "I" was a "J" or "S" and > unless you do a search in Ancestry et al using first name only (and first > names were often listed different from one census to the next), you might > not find your family unless you go through the entire town, page by page. > > But if you don't have a subscription and are willing to spend the time > looking through the records, hey, it's free. And you can download the pdf > for each census decade and enjoy going through them again and again, just > like we used to do pre-Internet lookup. > > 1790-1930 U.S. Census Records Available Free > Posted on December 22, 2010 by internetarchive > > With the U.S. Census Bureau beginning to release statistics from the 2010 > census. It seems a good time to mention that Internet Archive has a complete > set of the available U.S. Census back to the first one in 1790: > >From the press release of the completion of the most recent census: > _________________________________________________ > San Francisco, CA –Internet Archive has announced that a publicly accessible > digital copy of the complete 1930 United States Census – the largest, most > detailed census released to date – is available free of charge at > www.archive.org/details/1930_census. Previously, 1930 Census records were > accessible only through microfilm, or subscription services in which select > portions of data are provided for a fee. > The 1930 Census records are being made available online through a > collaboration with the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort > Wayne, Indiana. In the coming months, complete census records from 1790 > through 1920 will be made available as part of Internet Archive’s growing > Genealogy Collection. > “Internet Archive is pleased to be working on this important collection with > the renowned Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library,” said > Robert Miller, Internet Archive’s Director of Books. “There is tremendous > value in seeing the original census source documents without filtering and > third-party interpretation of the information. For historical researchers as > well as those individuals who are simply passionate about history and > genealogy, access to these materials is critical to understanding the past > and assessing how the past impacts the present, and how it can shape our > future.” > - - - - - - - - - - > > Search for more Cambria County information on our webpage: > http://www.camgenpa.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >