Your local library is most likely a branch of another library.  You should go to the main library of that system, and ask if you can have a card from them.  I search Heritage Quest at home, with my local library card.  Having the census available is really very nice.  If Heritage Quest is not available in your library system, walk into the nearest library at another system (like a neighboring county) and ask if you can get a library card.  They may make you pay a very small fee (like $15 or so), to join that system, but they may let you. You should also let your elected officials know that you expect the library to be funded well enough to meet your needs as a tax-paying citizen.  Public libraries are a great deal, yet their funding is always threatened.  Gail Dickinson (Bourdess, Thomas, Layton) and also.....librarian ________________________________ From: slbearer <[email protected]> To: Cambria List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, July 26, 2011 9:39:32 PM Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Census records Heritage Quest request My local library says there isn't enough interest & will not subscribe to Heritage Quest.  I knew of another county that offered it in the past but it is no longer on their website.  I have sent e-mails to libraries that I knew had it, explained my library does not have it & asked if I could join their library but no one responds.  Does anyone know of a library that will allow some one outside of their area to join?  It has been very frustrating when you know it is there but no one will allow you to benefit from it because your not from their area or library. I can't seem to find the Heritage Quest Census Records on the website mentioned below either.  Can someone lead me in the right directions after you are on that website?  I put Heritage Quest in the search box but it still isn't coming up. Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelly Kendig" <[email protected]> To: "Lisa Baker" <[email protected]>; "Cambria List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Census records - free 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 - - - - - - - - - - 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 - - - - - - - - - - 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