I was sent this information that I thought others may like to know this info also.....Hope it is helpfull to someone... TEXAS TRYING TO CLOSE ACCESS TO VITAL RECORDS - If any of you have interests in Texas, please go to the USGenWeb Texas site and download the addresses for you to write and give your opinion of this new Bill ************ ALL FEDERAL CENSUSES NOW SCANNED ONTO CD's - The company Heritage Quest formerly known as American Genealogical lending Library, has just finished scanning in every roll of Federal Census from1790 to 1920. Each roll is on one CD and there are 12,555 rolls of film. HQ used the master copies provided by the National Archives and as the film pages were scanned in, special software was used to enhance each page. That means many of those pages so many of us were unable to read in the past may now be readable. Not only are the pages much clearer, any part of the page can be magnified 800%. The image can be changed from black on white to white on black which also helps read difficult pages. Any part of the page may be blocked and copied. The page even rotates for ease of reading the printed column headings. The census page numbers run down the left side of the screen and all you do is click and view. Pre orders are being taken right now at $14.95 per CD, if interested check out their web site at <http://www.heritagequest.com> [It costs more then this price to buy the roll of microfilm! ed.] **************** CANADA - Between 1869 and 1930, about 100,000 children were taken from workhouses and homes for waifs in the British Isles and sent to Canada. Many of these children lost all connection with their families and birth records, becoming orphans in a new world. An ongoing project of The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa is to extract evidence of these "home children" from ships passenger lists at the National Archives in Ottawa. But until last year, the lists were available only through 1919. Finally, the National Archives of Canada was successful in gaining the release of ships passenger lists from the Department of Human Resources for the years between 1920 and 1935. Write BIFHSGO, P.O. Box 38026, Ottawa, ON K2C 1N0, Canada for the current status of this undertaking. (BIFHSGO Anglo-Celtic Roots 4.1, Winter 1997/98 and FGS Forum Spring 1999, V.11 N.1 p.18) ********* Mary Wood ICQ # 18068242