About Census Records

The largest directory of free census records available online is located at Census Finder where you can select a state, then browse each county to see what is available.

If you are new to census research, there is much information about the subject on the site also.  You can learn about Federal census records as well as more obscure state census records and territorial census records.

Census Questions

To learn which questions were asked on each individual census year, select a year from the chart below.

More Census Help

Search 1790-1930 US Federal Census Records at Ancestry.com

Free 1880 Census

1920 Census Information

1930 Census Information

Questions asked in Census Records

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