Overview of U S Federal Census Records in Genealogy Research

Опубликовано: 01 Январь 1970
на канале: Aimee Cross - Genealogy Hints

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United States Federal Censuses: where to find them, what they contain and how to use them in your genealogy and family history research. Instagram: ancestrybyaimee Facebook: @aimeecross2

Population schedules such as the U.S. Federal Censuses are crucial to successful genealogy work as you build your family tree. They put families together, show you the neighbors and give lots of information about the individuals such as ages, birthplaces, occupations, and how many children a woman had given birth to. Any genealogist would tell you, if you want to determine your ancestry, you need to understand census records.

Beginning in 1790 the United States collected population data every ten years. The 1950 Census will be released in April 2022 (census records are held for 72 years for privacy purposes). This video discusses various censuses and what they included as well as how to evaluate them to determine if they do, in fact, belong to your ancestor.

Many are intimidated by the 1790-1840 U.S. Federal Censuses as they did not list each family member by name. Here we also discuss my strategy to apply these early census records to my genealogy research.

1:00 When census' are released
1:18 1950 census release
2:12 Get the most from the census strategies
2:35 Index verses actual record
4:37 Evaluating a census record
6:28 Location, location, location
7:37 Where to find census records and an evaluation of the different providers
12:00 1950 census questions
12:24 1940 census
14:17 1930 census
15:03 1920 census
16:25 1910 census
17:25 1900 census
18:37 1880 census
19:41 1850 census
22:22 1840 census
23:50 1830 census
25:24 1800 census
25:51 1790 census
26:29 Strategies for using the pre-1850 censuses

Some helpful pages to visit:
1950 United States Census on track for release 1 April 2022 - https://www.archives.gov/news/article...
Census Questionnaires (all years) - https://www.census.gov/history/www/th...
Census Forms including the other non-population forms – https://www.archives.gov/research/gen...
Fire of the 1890 United States Census - https://www.archives.gov/publications...

I apologize for the background noise during part of the presentation; my computer had a lot of census records pulled up which kept the fan on – sorry!

The question of the day… how many times did I say “sometimes?!” Haha!

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