The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration released
the 1930 U.S. Federal Population Census Records on 1 April 2002. You can view
those records right now by visiting the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
or at one of the thirteen National Archives Regional Libraries in Boston, Springfield
(Massachusetts), New York City, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Seattle,
Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, San Francisco, Laguna Niguel (California), or Anchorage.
However, even with a total of fourteen locations, millions of
Americans still cannot easily travel to those locations. Luckily, there is an
answer: view the census records on your own computer from the comfort of your
home. For the first time ever in U.S. history, images of the census are being
released simultaneously on microfilm and online.
Ancestry.com, a division of MyFamily.com, and also the sponsor
of this newsletter, is publishing digitized images of the 1930 U.S. Federal
Census online within hours after the microfilm is released from the National
Archives. The viewable and printable images will be available to subscribers
through Ancestry.com, part of the MyFamily.com, Inc. network of webites and
the leading resource for family history online.
For more information, look at: www.ancestry.com/landing/census1.html.
To read my recent articles describing the 1930 U.S. census, look at www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/eastman/5432.asp
and www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/eastman/5433.asp.
Dick Eastman Online
