Overview of U S Federal Census Records in Genealogy Research
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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 - www.archives.gov/news/article...
Census Questionnaires (all years) - www.census.gov/history/www/th...
Census Forms including the other non-population forms - www.archives.gov/research/gen...
Fire of the 1890 United States Census - 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!
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Don't just look at the image. Look at the WHOLE image. On at least three occasions, looking at the whole image has uncovered other family members. But my favorite was when I found my great grandparents with their daughter (my grandmother) living with them. But the real surprise was at the top - my 20 year old grandmother was the census taker!
SO very true!! Thanks for adding that. Love that your grandmother was the census taker!
Hi Aimee! I recently discovered your channel thanks to the collaboration with Genealogy TV - love the content you provide! Do you have any advice for finding ancestors who seem to be "missing" from the census? I have great-grandparents that I know should be in the 1930 and 1940 censuses, but cannot find them. Even tried using their known address and using the enumeration district of that address to look through the entire district. Think they were skipped, which may be a possibility. Thanks!
You've done what I would have recommended. I have also looked up their neighbors to see if they are found near them in the other censuses. Are you sure they were at that address though? Is it possible they were in a different location? But I have had individuals who were missed in a census, it just seems unusual they would be missed twice.
Thank you so much for this video and all the videos on your channel! They have been a great help as I start researching my family tree. I was wondering if you had any tips in regards to farm schedules listed on the census, particularly for more recent censuses (1900-1950) as I can see the reference number on the census records, but not a separate document like the previous years listed on archives.gov? Got lots of farmers in my family tree and wondering if I can find/see those farm schedules. :)
Yes! Sometimes they are hard to find. Ancestry has some as does FamilySearch but you can also get them in Archives.gov or they may be held locally (state archives or libraries). Unfortunately sometimes they were destroyed as they were deemed unnecessary to keep (such as 1950). Check out these articles: www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/United_States_Census_Agricultural_Schedules, familytreemagazine.com/records/census/genealogy-workbook-special-censuses/