From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Feb 16 12:49:38 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1GJncjb030536; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:49:38 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1GJnaTt029648 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:49:36 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1GHKcFI024235 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:20:38 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1GHKc8l024234 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:20:38 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1GGrNFI024129 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:53:23 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1GJMBXS017284 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:22:11 -0700 X-Envelope-From: mscheffl@twcny.rr.com Thu Feb 16 12:22:11 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1GJMBjb017273 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:22:11 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.58]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1GJM81Q015206 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:22:08 -0700 Received: from 1070n (cpe-24-92-248-107.twcny.res.rr.com [24.92.248.107]) by ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k1GJM6gV009581 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:22:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <050001c6332e$45db25e0$6801a8c0@1070n> From: "MScheffler" To: References: <2c0.518b9cc.3125d003@aol.com> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:22:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Census Microfilms. Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I believe the LDS sells census films as does the National Archives. I thought at one point Heritage Quest sold these, but perhaps not all years in all places. I know HQ used to sell census on cd. I just overheard one of our local librarians talking about the prices of these to another lady while at our local library recently. If I were you, I might contact a few large libraries with microfilm collections of census films and find out the going rates. Libraries might get a different rate from individuals I wasn't paying good attention to what was being said, but I think they indicated the individual reels were about $70 each, but I may be way off. I remember when the 1930 census was about to be released they were asking people to donate money to buy reels at about $38. It may be that different years have different costs. Below are a few links I found on Google. I don't know how old these links are so the prices may not be correct. http://www.heritagequest.com/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/NE_Records/census/censfind.htm http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm-catalogs/census/1790-1890/part-01.html#buy Margaret Scheffler ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 7:54 AM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #71 > Good Morning: > > I am trying to find lest expensive place to buy census reels. > > Thank You, Marian >