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                   NATIONAL ARCHIVES MICROFILM RENTAL PROGRAM

[The following announcement is from the National Archives:]

Here's what you get from the National Archives Rental Program:

Convenience: You can rent official microfilm rolls by joining the National
Archives Rental Program ... or you can order through your local library.

Long rental period: You can use the rolls for a full thirty days.

New Prices -- the lowest available: You pay only $3.00 per roll for up to 4
rolls. $2.50 each for orders of 5-9 rolls, and the price drops to only $2.00
each for 10 or more rolls.  You may use the roll of film for a full thirty
days and then return it via the mail.  You may keep the film more than
thirty days by paying an additional $3.00 for each additional thirty-day
period.

Fast Service: Most orders are filled the same day we receive them! And if
there is going to be a delay, we let you know.


Go direct!

You purchase a Start-up kit for only $28.00 and here's what you get:

o   Your personal copies of the four catalogs you need to find out
    which microfilm rolls to order:

    The Federal Population Census from 1790 - 1890, for 1900, for 1910 and
       for 1920;

    The Compiled Military Service Records of Revolutionary War Soldiers, and
       the General Index to those records

    The Revolutionary War Pension

    Bounty-Land-Warrant Application Files

o   First two rolls FREE rental

o   Free lifetime membership in the National Archives Rental Program!

o   More!


Go to your library!

More than 6,000 libraries nationwide participate in the National Archives
Microfilm Rental Program.  Visit the inter-library loan division of your
local library to find out the participating library in your area.  Or, call
301-604-3699 to find out the participating library nearest you.  The
library can start you on your research and help you determine the exact
numbers of the microfilm rolls you need to rent.


Checks payable to "Microfilm Rental Program"

National Archives
Census Microfilm Rental Program
Post Office Box 30
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701-0030

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                         INFORMATION ON THE U.S. CENSUS

The Bureau of the Census has taken a census of the United States every ten
years beginning in 1790. Most of these records are still in existence,
although some of the 1790 and 1800 census records were burned in the War of
1812. The 1890 census records were almost all burned in a fire. The census
records for 1920 and all prior census years have been microfilmed and are
open
to the public.

The censuses prior to 1850 listed only the name of the head of the household
and the number of persons in various age/sex groups living within the
household. The 1850 and succeeding censuses include the names of each member of
the household, their ages and places of birth (state, territory or foreign
country), occupation, and value of real estate and personal property. The 1880
census added important information, the place of birth of each individual's
parents, and succeeding censuses also added various pieces of information, such
as the number of years a couple had been married, whether they had been married
before, number of children born to the wife and the number then living, etc.

All the census records through 1850 (and a growing part of 1860) have been
indexed in book form.

The National Archives has microfilmed all existing federal census records
through 1920. You can look at these microfilms at the National Archives in
Washington, DC, or in any of the regional U.S. Archives. Also, most larger
public libraries have a more or less extensive collection of census microfilms,
and local libraries often have films for their counties or areas.

These microfilms can be purchased or rented from the National Archives (see
above), and from such places as the "American Genealogical Lending Library,"
P.O. Box 244, Department H, Bountiful, Utah 84010. They lend microfilms for
$2.75 a roll, or sell them for $11.00 a roll. You will need to have access to a
microfilm reader in order to use these films. Name indexes to the censuses
through 1850 have been published in book form. These indexes are helpful
because otherwise you might have to look through an entire township or county
in order to find a person.

Soundex indexes have been created for the 1880 census (only those
households with a child age 10 or younger), the 1900 census (virtually all)
and the 1910 cenus (most).

In addition to the Federal 10-year census records, Federal or state off-years
census records were made in some states. Microfilms of these are usually
available in the state library, archives or historical society.