Becky, You will receive your census survey in the mail, with a deadline by which it must be mailed back. After you have filled it in, simply make a photocopy of each page of it, for your own genealogical records, and then mail in the original to the census bureau. Census records are protected for 74 years by the Privacy Act, so your grandchildren won't have access to the data from the census bureau until the year 2075. If you have left a copy amongst your research materials, that information will be readily available to your descendants long after you have passed on. You might even affix pictures of yourself and your family (identified, of course!) to a page added to the census pages. Julie Becky Codner wrote: > > About the census survey, I have received the survey in the mail before. I am not > sure how it is always done. > > "Hesson, Julie" wrote: > > > Since we are approaching the 2000 census, here is a tip to keep in mind: > > > > For your family's furure reference, make a couple of copies of all pages > > of your census returns for your own files, before you submit them. > > Share/trade them with other family researchers, only if you trust them > > not to splash the information all over the internet. > > > > Julie Hesson, IBSSG Flock Mistress > > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > In a message dated 99-04-18 10:01:02 EDT, [email protected] writes: > > > << 1991 Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census > > > >> > > > > > > None of my life has ever been "captured" by any census. Mom said that > > > someone called on her mom for the 1960 census, but no one in my family has > > > heard from them since... Every decade I wait by the door, but no one ever > > > shows up.