The below link, as given by Leatherman, will take you there. I was just there without any problem. Perhaps if the link as posted by Rootsweb has an extra character before the first h and another at the end you will need to copy between them or delete them before a copy and paste into your ISP line, or before hitting it within the post as a link... Yes, censuses are important down the line. My grandmother was trying to obtain a delayed birth certificate as she needed to prove her birth was in 1878; she had two of the criteria and needed one more. She did not realize she was on the 1880 census where her age/birth year matched up with her other criteria. We did not discover this until after she had passed on. Aileen _http://blog.capecodgensoc.org/2010/02/save-2010-census-no-images-to-be.html _ (http://blog.capecodgensoc.org/2010/02/save-2010-census-no-images-to-be.html)

Makes you wonder the reasoning behind destroying a very important document like this one when they supposedly still have the partially destroyed 1930 in storage. If it is too big to keep, that is understandable, but microfilm copies don't take much room.... Should there be an uprising of public sentiment to preserve the documents. A few years ago, wasn't there some kind of similar situation about the 1930? > From: Quickcrunch@aol.com > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:07:08 -0500 > To: tnlincol@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TNLINCOL] Re 2010 census blog > > The below link, as given by Leatherman, will take you there. I was just > there without any problem. Perhaps if the link as posted by Rootsweb has an > extra character before the first h and another at the end you will need to > copy between them or delete them before a copy and paste into your ISP line, > or before hitting it within the post as a link... > > Yes, censuses are important down the line. My grandmother was trying to > obtain a delayed birth certificate as she needed to prove her birth was in > 1878; she had two of the criteria and needed one more. She did not realize > she was on the 1880 census where her age/birth year matched up with her other > criteria. We did not discover this until after she had passed on. > Aileen > > _http://blog.capecodgensoc.org/2010/02/save-2010-census-no-images-to-be.html > _ > (http://blog.capecodgensoc.org/2010/02/save-2010-census-no-images-to-be.html) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNLINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/

My understanding is that the 1930 census, was first water damaged when the water used to put out a fire in the Department of Commerce building flowed into the basement where the census was stored. A number of years later some dim bulb in the government, sent the mess to the dump, about 1938. Only a few fragmented counties remain, and they are available if you are so lucky to have ancestors who lived in those places. As to the 2010 census, again my understanding is that only a sampling of households will be sent the full form with the type of questions, the answers to which are useful to genealogists. The rest of us will get short forms that only address the statistics they are looking for. I personally think this is a great rip off of the American people by more dim bulb bureaucrats. My inclination is not to respond. If people who object to the shoddy job that is planned, boycott the census, they may have to rethink what they are doing. Marleen Van Horne