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Using census records is easy. Just look at the bottom of the main search page and find the year you want to search, then search. But if you look just to the right of the list of census years you will see a list of "collections". There are only a few listed, but at the bottom of the list it says "see all databases". | Using census records is easy. Just look at the bottom of the main search page and find the year you want to search, then search. But if you look just to the right of the list of census years you will see a list of "collections". There are only a few listed, but at the bottom of the list it says "see all databases". | ||
Clicking this can be a little daunting as there are currently 30, | Clicking this can be a little daunting as there are currently 30,741 collections or databases. Many of these collections are only availble at Ancestry.com. These are sorted usually by popularity, but that can be changed to by Title, Date updated, Date added, or Record count (each collection can have many records in it). Some of these databases are lists of people in cemeteries, or birth, deaths and/or marriages in particular countries, states or even towns. And some are old (very old) books which contain the lineage of the first settlers of the colonies in America. These are invaluable as they were written within 10 to 100 years of the actual settlements, often by actual descendants of the families they are listing and are much more accurate than later books and studies. | ||
There are also filters on the left. You can filter by continent, country in North America, and language. Other filters include census & voter rolls, birth-death & marriage records, newspapers & periodicals, and several other catagories. | There are also filters on the left. You can filter by continent, country in North America, and language. Other filters include census & voter rolls, birth-death & marriage records, newspapers & periodicals, and several other catagories. | ||