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Colorado Additional Census Info

Purpose

Add additional databases and fix a heading for the Colorado Census section

Task List

Task List

Instructions

1. Go to the Task List and sign out a section of counties to work on.

2. Go do the Census heading on the first county.

Step 1 - take out previous content

3. If the following database is listed under the heading, State and Territory Census Records, cut and paste it under the heading, Federal Census Records and it's subsequent paragraph.

  • 1860-1940 Colorado Census Records from 1860 to 1940 at FamilySearch.org — index/images


NOTE: if it is not there, you do not have to paste it in. There is a link to these censuses on the Colorado census page.

Step 2 - add new content

4. Add the following wikitext directly after the heading, State and Territory Census Records and before the 1885 State Census database links (so it's in chronological order)..

*'''1860''' - {{RecordSearch|1473181|United States Census, 1860}} at [https://familysearch.org/search/ FamilySearch Historical Records] — index & images; Colorado was included in the 1860 Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Utah Territories Censuses
*'''1870''' - {{RecordSearch|1438024|United States Census, 1870}} at [https://familysearch.org/search/ FamilySearch Historical Records] — index & images; Colorado Territory Census


5. Preview the page to make sure the links and information look correct.

6. Add to the Summary field, "added census databases" and save the page.

7. Once you are finished with your counties, go back to the Task List and add the date you completed your section of counties.



Example

Census Records

In 1860, present-day Colorado was enumerated in the Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Utah Territories. Colorado Territory was created in 1861 and was enumerated as such in the 1870 Census. A state census was taken in 1885 for Colorado.[1] See links listed below.

Territory and State Census Records

Federal Census Records

The 1880 Census was the first Federal Census for Colorado after it became a state in 1876.[2] For links to Federal Census indexes, see Colorado Census.

  • 1860-1940 Colorado Census Records from 1860 to 1940 at FamilySearch.org — index/images
  1. ↑ William Thorndale and William Dollarhide, Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses (Bountiful, UT: American Genealogical Lending Library, 1985), page 51-54; Alice Eichholz, ‘’Ancestry’s Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources,’’ 3rd ed. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 2004), 86. Free online version; FS Library Book 973 D27rb 2004; WorldCat entry.
  2. ↑ William Thorndale and William Dollarhide, Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses (Bountiful, UT: American Genealogical Lending Library, 1985), page 54.

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