There are links to over 6,500
censuses on this page, providing a wealth of information for genealogy researchers tracing ancestors from UK, US, Canada, or Europe.
It is a pleasure to use a website that is so well
presented and rich in content with over 5,000 links to censuses. Most of them
are for US states but you will also find links to censuses for England,
Germany, Mexico, Norway and Russia.
Started in February, 1997 The USGenWeb Census
Project, is an all-volunteer project to transcribe census records in a
standard format in order to make them available to genealogical researchers on
the Internet. It would be the largest collection of US censuses on the
internet. The best way to find what you are looking for is to browse the
indexes of links
Another comprehensive collection of links (over
5,000) for US research can be found at Census Online, Maintained by Mark Reid.
There are also some links to Canadian censuses.
Maintained by the owner of Censuslinks, this site has
the same tidy presentation. Links to censuses for African Americans are here.
There are several other useful sections including Slave Schedules
, wills, bible records and inventories
In the process of taking
the 1890 general census, there was a question relating to military service. If
the answer was positive, then the special schedule was to be completed.
Veterans and widows (even occassionaly mothers of veterans) of either side
(Civil War) or of any military service whatsoever, are known to have been
listed. A preliminary count of the census was said to include over 1,000,000 Union survivors and
more than 160,000 widows..
Access over 2.2 million names here mainly from the
1851 Census. This is still one of the few UK censuses available online. Data.
A large part of the data relates to strays (people who were in a different county/region from their home
at time of census
