Musty, Brittle Scraps Online

On the Wall Street Journals free pages:

Today, Ancestry.com, a subscription service owned by MyFamily.com Inc., will put a fully indexed version of the 1910 U.S. Census on the Web, culminating its six-year-long project of digitizing and indexing all publicly available U.S. Census records from 1790 to 1930....

In recent months, FamilySearch.org, a free site sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has been expanding its collection of birth, marriage, death, census and other records. It has also begun a massive project to digitize billions of records previously available only on microfilm, particularly civil, church and local records....

No more cross-country trips and dusty caravanseries. This is the future of historical research.