Ancestry.com (a paid site) and FamilySearch.org (a free site of the Latter Day Saints Church) have created a partnership to share information. Ancestry is providing census images to Family Search so LDS volunteers can enhance the search functions, and in return eventually all the census will be free to FamilySearch.org users. For Ancestry.com subscribers, the census will be free for a limited time to non-subscribers. Currently, in addition to the 1880 census, the Family Search site has posted the 1850 and 1870 US census records and some census from England and Mexico. _http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0_ (http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0) Bookmark the above URL for furture reference as free search aids will be added. Sharon Tabor **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)

Unfortunately, the nerds at the LDS computer department have seen fit to shut down access to the census info because the Macintosh Safari browser "hasn't been tested." There isn't a version of Explorer for the Mac that's been tested either. I was able to use the site with Safari without a hitch until they realized their "problem." As a software developer for almost 20 years, I'd have to classify the real problem here as due to a programmer sitting too close to the screen for too long. Jim > Ancestry.com (a paid site) and FamilySearch.org (a free site of the Latter > Day Saints Church) have created a partnership to share information. > > Ancestry is providing census images to Family Search so LDS volunteers > can > enhance the search functions, and in return eventually all the census > will be > free to FamilySearch.org users. For Ancestry.com subscribers, the census > will be free for a limited time to non-subscribers. > > Currently, in addition to the 1880 census, the Family Search site has > posted > the 1850 and 1870 US census records and some census from England and > Mexico. > > _http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0_ > (http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0) > > > Bookmark the above URL for furture reference as free search aids will be > added. > > Sharon Tabor > > > > > **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for > FanHouse Fantasy Football today. > (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >