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>Recently I accepted a "free" trial of the census area.  Not good at all.
>Only a few states are represented.  None are states in which I am resarching.
> Most do not have an INDEX..  How can you ever locate the info without an
>index?    Then I tried one that did have an index.  It was so cumbersome - I
>could never make it work correctly. I cancelled the remaider of the trial.
>
>Larry in Texas
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Ancestry has *all* extant images from all states for each of the
decennial U.S. censii 1790-1920,
including the 1890 remnant.  The first seven (1790 through 1850) are
fully indexed and fairly
reliably linked to images. The 1920 census is advertised as fully
indexed and linked, but many
of the links to pages I'd like to see in the Texas enumeration are bad,
yielding only a page that
says there's been an error, and it's been logged by the server.  The
1860 enumeration is partially
indexed & linked.  Some images are available for 1930, and they're
partially indexed.  No linked
indexing has yet been done for 1870, 1880, 1890(remnant), 1900, or 1910,
but access to the old
AIS indices is included in the subscription, which is helpful w/ the
1870(many states) and the 1880
(a few states).

On the whole, the $40 or $50 per year fee to subscribe to Ancestry's
U.S. census collection has,
imho, more than paid for itself in terms of time and gasoline saved, and
I'm only 15 mi. from a
near-complete set of the U.S. censii on microfilm.  This has been most
especially true since we
switched from dial-up to DSL, which decreased image loading time to
about 1/15 of what it had
been.

Rgds.,
Judy Baugh
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