The United States federal census records are a goldmine of information about our ancestral families. Every ten years, the US government enumerated the residents of the country in order to count the people for allocating representatives to the US Congress House of Representatives. Besides counting the residents, the government also asked additional questions. It’s these questions that really help us learn more about our families. Currently, we have access to census records from the first census in 1790 to the most current census of 1950, which came out for our use this past April 1. However, the 1890 census records were involved in a fire in 1921 in the Commerce Department Building in Washington, DC, and were later destroyed. [1] There are only a few examples remaining. If you are lucky, you may find your family on one of those pages. The search page for these fragment pages on Ancestry is here: 1890 United States Federal Census Fragment. Other Sources I have no family in ...
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