Introduction to Census Records Search Census Records Online You can start your census records search with only: The name of your relative or ancestor, and The state where he or she resided. Learn more about US census records. ©The Generations Network 2007 To search the 1840 census online, visit www.ancestry.com Ancestry Census Form 006 LINE NUMBER Name of the county, city, ward, town, township, parish, precinct, hundred, or district. 1840 census was first to ask military-related question; captured name and age of Revolutionary War pensioners President during census: Martin Van Buren William Henry Harrison (“Old Tippacanoe”) wins the 1840 election by defeating incumbent Martin Van Buren. 1840 Federal Census - Pensions Located at USGenWeb Archives: Walton Co., GA [Report Broken Link] Ware Co. 1840 Federal Census Located at Ware Co. GAGenWeb [Report Broken Link] 1840 Federal Census Located at USGenWeb Archives: Ware Co., GA [Report Broken Link] 1840 Federal Census - Free Persons of Colore & Slave Data Located at Ware Co. GAGenWeb Housing Census (1970) The first 13 questions on the 1970 census housing questionnaire were asked of all households. Quick Links to Questions from Population Schedules of other U.S. Census Years 1790 • 1800 • 1810 • 1820 • 1830 • 1840 • 1850 • 1860 1870 • 1880 • 1890 • 1900 • 1910 • 1920 • 1930 • 1940. The 2020 census won’t ask you about how many people in your family are “idiots” or “insane,” but in 1840 that was a question census workers had to answer for every household. 1840 Federal Census - Springfield Twp. As with previous housing questionnaires, most questions had only a list of items for the respondent to choose from; these items are listed where relevant. The following is an index and partial census return of the 1840 census of Lamoille County Vermont extracted by Dennis N. Partridge in 2001.

Index provided by Ancestry.com. Name index to the population schedules listing the inhabitants of the United States in 1840. United States Census, 1840. However, data from recent censuses are not available after 1940 because of a The following questions were those included on the Population Schedule for the 1880 Census.

Free download of blank census forms. Broken down by town, the listing provides the Head of Household and the page in which you can find the census. The enactment of the Population Act 1840 meant a new procedure was adopted for taking the 1841 census. Located at Muskingum County, Ohio Township Project [Report Broken Link] 1840 Federal Census - Washington Twp. Description. This was the sixth national census conducted since 1790.

The 1840 census continued this expansion of gathering information and it is the 2nd pages of the schedules where we find these additional questions. The uproar began about a year after the census statistics had been compiled and printed, when the prominent Richmond-based Southern Literary Messenger published a lengthy article entitled “Reflections on the Census of 1840” (Vol.

Learn which questions were asked in each census year and which states were enumerated along with helpful tips and information to assist you in census research and the discovery of your ancestry. Located at Muskingum County, Ohio Township Project [Report Broken Link] 1840 Federal Census - Union Twp. One question asks what occupation each person in the family was engaged in. The first Federal Population Census was taken in 1790, and a census has been taken every ten years since. The rest were asked of either a 5 or 15 percent sample, with some overlap. 9, June 1843, pp. The United Kingdom Census of 1841 recorded the occupants of every United Kingdom household on the night of 6 June 1841.

1880 Census Questions. 340-352).