Oh, yeah... Online... I have saved THOUSANDS of images of census records from Ancestry.com, and a few text census records (from before Ancestry completed their indexing).

It's so much easier to search census records in these days of the WWW! I used to do it the long way .. figuring out codes and ordering Soundex microfilms. Finding people, then ordering US Federal Census films. Lots of WAITING in between. Used to go a local Family History Center to view them. Lots of time to view them and only hard copies possible .. of a few .. and lots of by hand transcribing for records found. -- Imagine my delight with "Onine access" - lots of indexing (even with the erroes) - multiple sources! :) And not only sources (from volunteer to subscription publishers) .. but source DOCUMENTS too. Now, can access many different KINDS of census records .. more easily .. and with those original image scans that I love to see, download, print. -- For me: US Federal Census records and US state or territory census records. Still need microfilm for some of the latter, but at least they exist .. not destroyed (like federal 1890 ..) or too fragile to examine. (thank you, LDS) -- Now - if they had just added family member names and relationships to those 1790 through 1840 census returns as we've got from 1850 forward! lol