State Census Records Found at FamilySearch Labs

The shear numbers of records found at the FamilySearch labs website are mind boggling. Within the digitized records now found posted 1865 Brighton, Monroe Co, NY Census at the site are quite a number of State Census records.

Records for Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Wisconsin are now found there.

These records are not all indexed, but even those can be browsed by location. A few of the databases are not imaged, but they are searchable.

The state census may include many images that are not population schedules including mortality and agricultural schedules. In some cases the images are in separate databases; in others they may be found at the end of the population schedules.

The following State Censuses are now found at the FamilySearch Labs site:

censussubs-1-60pw Thirty-seven states have Colonial, Territorial, and State Censuses.

Use these census records to fill in your family data for the years between the Federal decennial censuses.

I recommend the following four books for those who would like to add to their family records:

Census Substitutes & State Census Records – Vol. 1 – Eastern States, by William Dollarhide
Census Substitutes & State Census Records – Vol. 2 – Western States, by William Dollarhide
New York State Censuses & Substitutes, by William Dollarhide
State Census Records, by Ann Lainhart

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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