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U.S. Census Records & Images

Ancestry.com is saving its subscribers time and money by allowing them to view and print documents that have traditionally been stored on microfilm or in a limited number of archives and libraries. The online images provide detail only available through original records.

Enter an ancestor's name in the search box below to search the indexed census records.

   
    Given Name(s) Last Name

Census Records on CD-ROM

Genealogy Shopper is pleased to announce that it has teamed up with AllCensus to be able to sell U.S. Census Records on CD-ROM. AllCensus has one of the most complete indexes to Census Record, and the records they offer can be viewed on any computer with programs included on each CD-ROM.

Click on any of the states listed below for available Census Records* for purchase on CD-ROM. Records are currently unavailable for Alaska and Montana.

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  • West Virginia Census
  • Wisconsin Census
  • Wyoming Census

    • * Some census records were not well cared for and the books were in poor condition when originally photographed. These pictures, though reproduced as well as possible, are occasionally not as clear as one would like. The original census books themselves were destroyed and so we can not go back and do it again. We can not accept responsibility for the quality of such pages though our enhancement process usually makes them much better than they appear on the microfilm. We are sometimes able to bring out details not apparent on the film.

    Links to Free Census Online

    The web's largest directory of links to online census transcriptions! This directory includes links to federal censuses and indexes, state and territorial censuses, tax lists, voter lists, military pensioner lists, etc.

    Additional Information

    The Basics of Using Federal Census Records
    by George G. Morgan

    Census records are among the most frequently used materials of genealogists and family historians. The United States government has conducted population enumerations every ten years since 1790, and these records provide milestones for us by helping us physically locate our ancestors in those years.

    From the Census Index to the Census Image
    by Michael John Neill

    While the image discussions concentrate on the images at Ancestry.com, users of library microfilm will also find much of the discussion relevant as the census images were created from the microfilm that genealogists have used at libraries for decades.

     

     

    See also: GenDirectory: Census