The National Archives of Iceland (NAI) preserves 20 complete censuses, among them the 1703 census, which is the oldest preserved census in the world that embraces the whole population of a nation. The censuses are a great treasure and an important part of the cultural heritage of Iceland. Now this treasure is being made accessible on the internet. In the autumn of 2007, the government of Iceland took measures to counteract the effect of an impressive cut of cod quota on fishing communities all over Iceland. As a part of that project, NAI was granted a sum of money from the national budget in order to make electronic versions of censuses kept in NAI. According to current plans, data from ten censuses will be recorded into databases during the years 2008 and 2009. NAI has already made a multimedia presentation of the 1703 census in collaboration with The National Museum of Iceland. This presentation will be played for the audience. Icelandic censuses and the project of making electronic versions of them will make up the content of the talk presented here.