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Doing Family History and Genealogy Online

Steven Mintz

NAMES

CENSUS RECORDS

GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES

  • 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.

  • Heritage Quest Online (UH Library Resource)

    http://www.heritagequestonline.com/

  • 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.

  • 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.

 

 

This site was updated on 23-Nov-09.

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