Thought this might interest some of you... Joe ============================================= CENSUS TO SCAN AND STORE ALL CENSUS RESPONSES Archivist of the United States, John W. Carlin, announced last week that the scanned image files of individual responses to the 2000 Decennial Census will become part of the permanent records of the 2000 Census. The individual Census Record File, Master Address File, and numerous summary statistic data files are already scheduled to become permanent records at the National Archives. These digital images, which will not be made available to the public until 2072, will be transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) from the Census Bureau in 2010. NARA currently holds microfilmed copies of the census records from 1790 through 1920. These records are available at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, as well as NARA's regional facilities. The 1930 census will be released on microfilm on April 1, 2002.