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NAMES
CENSUS
RECORDS
GENEALOGICAL
RESOURCES
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Cyndi’s List
http://www.CyndisList.com/
This
site, operated by Cyndi Howells, has grown from a part-time
project into one of the most respected and visited genealogical
resources online. Howells offers over 143,000 categorized
and cross-referenced links, with more added on a regular basis.
Categories are ordered alphabetically on the site’s
main page, and are dated to indicate currency. Choosing a
category reveals further layers of organization and lists
of links, some of which are annotated with brief descriptions.
Researchers are further aided by indexes and a search engine.
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Heritage Quest Online (UH Library Resource)
http://www.heritagequestonline.com/
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Ellis Island Online Database
American
Family Immigration History Center
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/
Online
searchable database of over 22 million passenger names covering
roughly 70% of the immigrants processed through Ellis Island
between 1892 and 1924.
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Family Finder Search
http://www.genealogy.com/ifftop.html?Welcome=1033557340
Military Records
| UNITED
STATES CENSUS RECORDS |
|
CENSUS YEAR |
INFORMATION PROVIDED |
|
1790 |
Residence;
name of head of family; # of free white males 16 yrs up;
free white males under 16; # free white females; # slaves;
# other persons. |
|
1800 |
Residence;
name of head of family; # of free white males and females
under 10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45 up; all other free white
persons except Indians not taxed; # slaves. |
|
1810 |
Same
as 1800. |
|
1820 |
Residence;
name of head of family; # free males & females, same
age categories as 1810; foreigners not naturalized; male
& female slaves & free colored persons under 14,
14-26, 26-45, 45 up; all other free persons except Indians
not taxed; number of persons (including slaves) engaged
in agriculture, commerce, and manufacture. |
|
1830 |
Residence;
name of head of family; # of free white males & females
in 5 yr age groups to 20, 10 yr age groups to 100, over
100 yrs; # slaves & free colored persons in six broad
age groups; # deaf & dumb under 14, 14-24, 25 up;
# blind; foreigners not naturalized. |
|
1840 |
Residence;
name of head of family; # free white males & females
in same age groups as 1830; # slaves & free colored
persons in six broad age groups; # deaf and dumb; # blind;
# persons employed in each of seven classes of occupations;
# in school; # white persons over 20 illiterate; # pensioners
for Revolutionary or military service. |
|
1850 |
Residence;
names of all household members; ages; sex; color (white,
black or mulatto); profession, occupation, or trade for
each male person over 15; value of real estate owned;
place of birth; whether married within the yr; whether
attended school within the yr; whether illiterate over
20; whether deaf & dumb, blind, insane or idiotic;
whether a pauper or convict. Supplemental schedules for
slaves listing slave's age, sex, color (B or M), fugitive
from the state, # manumitted, deaf, dumb or idiotic. |
|
1860 |
Same
as 1850 plus value of personal property. Supplemental
slave schedule adds # of slave houses. |
|
1870 |
Same
as 1860 plus whether parents were foreign born; month
of birth if born within the yr; month of marriage if married
within the yr; male citizens 21 and over, # of such persons
denied the right to vote for other than rebellion. |
|
1880 |
Same
as 1870 minus citizen info plus street address; relationship
to head of family; whether person sick or temporarily
disabled, if so what condition; whether maimed, crippled
or bedridden; place of birth of father and mother. |
|
1890 |
Same
as 1880 |
|
1900 |
Residence
with street address; relationship to head of family; color
or race (white, black, Chinese, Japanese, Indian); birth
month & year; age; marital status; # yrs married;
# children of wife; # children living; place of birth;
parents' place of birth; citizenship; yr of immigration
& # yrs in U.S.; citizenship status; occupation; can
read, write & speak English; ownership of Home or
Farm. Separate schedules for institutions, military establishments,
and Indian reservations. |
|
1910 |
Same
as 1900 plus mother tongue of person and parents; whether
out of work during the year; school attendance; whether
a survivor of Union or Confederate Army or Navy. |
|
1920 |
Residence
with street address; name; relationship to head of family;
sex; race; age as of Jan 1, 1920; marital status; if foreign
born, yr of immigration, whether naturalized, and yr of
naturalization; school attendance; literacy; birthplace
of person & parents; mother tongue; ability to speak
English; occupation, industry, and class of worker; home
owned or rented, if owned whether free or mortgaged. |
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