Digital Census - U.S. Census Records Online The race to put US census data online is heating up between Heritage Quest, Genealogy.com and MyFamily.com (parent company of Ancestry.com). Here's the scoop on what each company is offering and how much it will cost to access these digitized census records. Ancestry.com Ancestry.com offers online access to over 700 million names from data sources around the world, plus has plans to include the entire U.S. Census online by April 2001. They offer a variety of quarterly and annual subscription options.
Everton Publishers Databases include "Roots" Cellar, Family File, Pedigree Library, GEDSEARCH, census records, death records and records from England. One week, one month, six month and one year options are available. Genealogy.com - Internet Family Archives Subscribe to only the information which pertains to your search. IFA allows you to subscribe to each database individually - with lifetime access. For those IFAs which aren't yet available online, you can also purchase on CD-ROM. GenealogyLibrary.com This rapidly-growing collection of online books and family-finding resources contains 2930 databases, images from the 1850 U.S. Census and more than 30 million names from indexes for US Census records covering the years 1790-1880. Kindred Konnections This online subscription database which claims to contain over 1 billion names includes the MyTrees PLUS search, which allows you to search for every ancestor in your database all at one time. They offer an introductory special and monthly and annual subscription options.
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