From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jan 18 19:48:09 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0J2m9SK028904; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:48:09 -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 k0J2m6dl024185 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:48:06 -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 k0J0KoFI003853 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:20:50 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k0J0KoNN003852 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:20:50 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0J0GIFI003667 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:16:18 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k0J2hNIJ025490 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:43:23 -0700 X-Envelope-From: ChristieTrapp@aol.com Wed Jan 18 19:43:23 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0J2hNSK025479 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:43:23 -0700 Received: from imo-m22.mail.aol.com (imo-m22.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.3]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0J2hKGt018411 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:43:21 -0700 Received: from ChristieTrapp@aol.com by imo-m22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r6.3.) id e.54.53570f81 (4459) for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:43:07 -0500 (EST) From: ChristieTrapp@aol.com Message-ID: <54.53570f81.310056bb@aol.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:43:07 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5300 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Census Records Every census is published to the public after 72 years have elapsed from the time the census was taken. The 1930 was just released in 2002. In 2012 the 1940 census will be released and in 2022 the 1850 and each ten years down the road. Many of us won't be here when the census returns that we create are going to be published. The census returns that our future genealogists will be facing is going to be disappointing, at least as far as I can tell. Until the returns are issued to the public, there will not be any access to the 1940 census or later ones except if you personally need or have reason to view what you submitted to the Census Bureau. Until then, no one has access to any census returns and that includes Ancestry, Heritage Quest or the National Archives! The reason I say this is because the 1980 census that I filled out was nothing more than completing a bunch of bubble questions. Putting families together from these census is going to be rather difficult. Not to mention a lot of people are still paranoid about government getting inside our business! The 2000 census was more of the same. I don't remember completing a census return. I think I was living with a boyfriend at the time and he might have only filled it out for himself and omitted me as being a member of his household. The 1970 census I was in Europe and don't remember being asked to complete one. So, for anyone looking for me, they are going to have to follow me all over the world and all over the US as I moved around for the last 30 years! Christie Trapp