The 1880 census is now on line at LDS! It's Free!!!!! <Snippet> 23 October 2002 > > > > Two Nations Celebrate in Dozens of Concurrent News Conferences > > > > SALT LAKE CITY - In honor of Family History Month, The Church of Jesus > > Christ of Latter-day Saints is making invaluable indexes of American and > > Canadian heritage available free to the public at the touch of a button. > > The 1880 United States Census and the 1881 Canadian Census, searchable > > databases of more than 55 million people, are now on the Internet at > > www.familysearch.org, signifying another great leap forward in online > > family history research. > > > > The online availability of the two censuses was announced by President > > Gordon B. Hinckley in the historic Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt > > Lake City with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing "O Canada" and "The > > Star-Spangled Banner." Dozens of other press conferences were held across > > Canada and the United States, from Edmonton to Toronto and from Los > > Angeles to Washington, D.C., making this the largest family history > > announcement in the history of the Church.