If does not appear that things are as dire as presented in the original post. Take a look at Eastman's blog posting AND the responses with discussion and links to other articles with more detail underneath. This is nothing new... what would be surprising is if they did keep the original responses by "the people". Remember folks, what we view today are not forms our ancestors completed, but a compilation by the census taker... and who know which copy he made (state, federal or county) that we are actually seeing. http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/02/2010-census-no-images-to-be-preserved.html Melissa ________________________________