I recently covered this topic in a genealogy class I teach locally, so I'm attaching the instructions I gave out in class. Kay Rudolph FamilySearch has all population schedule indexes available online, but you can only access images on the FamilySearch site for 1940, 1900, 1870, and 1850 (including the 1850 Mortality Schedule and the 1850 Slave Schedule). For other census years FamilySearch provides a link to the image on ancestry.com or fold3, but you will not be able to view these images without a subscription to the partner site. Images to all population schedules are available for free through HeritageQuest, which you can access through your local library’s web page, provided you have a library card number. To locate an image on HeritageQuest, first find the index entry for the individual on FamilySearch. Copy the following information from the FamilySearch index entry into the HeritageQuest “Search Census” screen to locate the exact image you need.   1.      Select “Find by Page Number” on the HeritageQuest “Search Census” screen 2.      Select the census “Series” on HeritageQuest (for example, 1880-T9) 3.      Enter the “Roll” number. If the FamilySearch index entry does not include the term “nara roll number,” then look for the term “nara film number”—the number that follows the hyphen is the roll number (the leading alphanumeric code is the NARA series designation, such as T9 for the 1880 census) 4.      For “Page” enter the “page” or “sheet number” from the FamilySearch index entry 5.      Click “Search” and an image opens in HeritageQuest. This may or may not be the image you need: in some censuses, a single page number has multiple pages (1A, 1B, etc.). Check the “page character” designation (A, B, C, D) on the FamilySearch index entry. 6.      The “family” or “household” number listed in the Source Citation at the bottom of the FamilySearch index entry may sometimes help you locate your target household on the page, but frequently the FamilySearch citation is incorrect so you may need to scan the entire page to locate the individuals you are searching for.