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

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

My library system has Ancestry.com, also Heritage Quest and numerous other databases on all sorts of subjects, but you need to use your library card and log on in the library on one of their computers. I can log on from home using my library card to look for newspaper obits, Americas Obituaries and Death Notices. It sounds like Kelly's local library lets patrons access Heritage Quest through their library card. Let's hear it for property taxes. What started this conversation was that I found the federal census on-line for free, but it doesn't appear to be indexed. You can download the pdf and then page through it until you find the township and then go by page looking for your family. If you do this, suggest creating a text or word file and listing the township and page number for each new section. I have the Cambria census on microfilm and wrote down all the townships and page numbers on the outside of the box. http://www.archive.org/ This is the same archive where I found a number of Johnstown flood books and Cambria county books. The LDS library has the 1900 census online and the 1920 index. http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html?datestamp=1202142477613#p=home And of course, our Cambria county website has the Cambria census transcribed for 1790 to 1880 in entirety, and portions thereafter through 1930. And finally, not to sound like an advertisement, but Footnote.com has the census and other records, although not nearly as many as Ancestry.com, for a fraction of the cost of Ancestry. Last year around the holidays they offered it at a discounted subscription rate. Also, they provide you with a lot of the basic household information, including enumeration district and page number. So if you already have access to the census, i.e., download the archive.org pdfs, you might be able to look for family and location, and then open a pdf and search for the correct page. One codicil, I've had a trial membership logon for Ancestry and Footnote for several years. I'm not sure if they allow new trials access to the same information as 'grandfather' memberships. Or you can try asking the mailing list to look up a page for you. Just trying to give people a few more options to do their research. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:39:32 -0400 > 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 > > 1790-1930 U.S. Census Records Available Free > Posted on December 22, 2010 by internetarchive > _________________________________________________ > 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.”