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You might want to carve out a little time for genealogy over your Labor Day weekend:
Subscription genealogy site Ancestry.com is making its entire
collection of US censuses free through Sept. 3. That collection includes:

· 1790-1940 US Census collections

· 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules

· 1890 Veterans schedules

· Non-Population Schedules 1850-1880 (such as mortality schedules and the 1880 schedule
of “defective, dependent and delinquent” classes)

· IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918

· Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940

You’ll need to register for a free account with the site in order to view the records. Click
here to start searching.

Ancestry.com also is introducing a feature called the Ancestry.com
Time Machine: Answer a few questions about your interests, and get back a video
of what your experiences might be like in 1940.