As every other genblog I read has been stating, Archives.com is adding the U.S. Federal Census to their collection. Now, I don’t subscribe to Archives.com, although I’m sure there’s a lot of really helpful documents available, but I can’t afford anything more than Ancestry right now as it is, so I have no general review. However, the biggest part of this isn’t this new availability (since I already have access to a searchable census directory not only from the free FamilySearch but also Ancestry), but the fact that Archives also pledged at LEAST 5 million dollars to FamilySearch to digitize millions of documents to be made available. This is fantastic news, considering there is a huge amount of records that the LDS church has so wonderfully collected and while a lot of things are already available, I can imagine how difficult it must be to pay for the resources to digitize all these records. So kudos to Archives for this pledge and partnership, I am very excited to see what helpful pieces of history we may be able to recover for the Bindner and/or Pease lines.
Read more about it at Archives.com
