How can I search the Census Records?

You can access census records many different ways:

Visiting the National Archives Building in Washington, DC or one of our regional facilities located in Anchorage, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Fort Worth, Kansas City, New York City, Philadelphia, Riverside, CA, San Francisco, and Seattle.
Visit State Archives or State Libraries.
Contacting public libraries, historical societies, and other research facilities.
Purchasing rolls of the microfilm from us.
Using online services, such as ancestry.com or heritagequest.com, which have digitized many census holdings from the National Archives. (Available free-of-charge at the National Archives facilities nationwide and through many libraries, otherwise by subscription.)
Check with the USGenWeb project to see if census records from your states of interest have been transcribed (free of charge). See both http://www.us-census.org/ and http://www.rootsweb.com/~census/states.htm.