Category:U.S. Census and Voter Lists

A U.S. Census Geographer works on coverage maps for the 1930 census. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Public Information Office.)

Many countries took periodic censuses to keep track of various aspects of the population. Where available, these records often include helpful details about your ancestors and their families and allow you to pinpoint their location at a particular point in time.

While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can find information like names of other household members, ages, birthplaces, residence, occupation, immigration and citizenship details, marriage information, military service and more.

Start learning about the United State Census in the Overview of the U.S. Census chapter in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy.

You can find many articles discussing the census in the links below. There are entries for each year the federal census was taken. You can find information on state-specific censuses in the following list as well.

and, do you plan to include World Wide information? My immediate interest is IRELAND, prior to 1850. That will no doubt direct me to ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, FRANCE and maybe Spain. --- Don Beckett , [email protected]