Since I am in Chicago for the American Library Association conference,
I was able to act on the news that John Ballard brought up the other day -
that a company has scanned the entire US Census from 1790 to 1920 for web
usage It's already in CD-ROM). I spoke with the folks at Heritage Quest, and
they told me that they have all the images, but they are experiencing a few
"technical difficulties" that will delay the release of the product until
Fall. They would not tell me any numbers for pricing, but they did admit
that they will be pricing it for libraries first, and then for individual
researchers. They had copies of some of the image enhancements they had done
on the originals, and it looks like something we will all want to see.
Terry Ballard