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==== Statewide Surname Indexes ==== | ==== Statewide Surname Indexes ==== | ||
These represent every household in | These represent every household in Utah census returns. For most families, they index only the first person listed in each household, who was usually the father or head of the household. Many families had relatives or friends with a different surname living with them when the census was taken. In those cases, the first person of each surname in the household is included in the index. | ||
'''1850, 1860, and 1870 -- '''Statewide indexes are available in books, on microfiche, or microfilm. They are listed in the Place Search of the Family History Library Catalog under: UTAH - CENSUS - [YEAR] - INDEXES. See: | '''1850, 1860, and 1870 -- '''Statewide indexes are available in books, on microfiche, or microfilm. They are listed in the Place Search of the Family History Library Catalog under: UTAH - CENSUS - [YEAR] - INDEXES. See also: | ||
Kearl, J.R., ''Index to the 1850, 1860, and 1870 Censuses of Utah: Heads of Households''. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing, 1981. (Family History Loibrary [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&callno=979.2+X2k book 979.2 X2k; fiche 6051336].) These multi-state indexes list the census year, each head of household's name, age, sex, occupation, household visitation number, city, county, birthplace, real wealth, and personal wealth. | Kearl, J.R., ''Index to the 1850, 1860, and 1870 Censuses of Utah: Heads of Households''. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing, 1981. (Family History Loibrary [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&callno=979.2+X2k book 979.2 X2k; fiche 6051336].) These multi-state indexes list the census year, each head of household's name, age, sex, occupation, household visitation number, city, county, birthplace, real wealth, and personal wealth. | ||
'''1880, 1900, 1920 and 1930''' | '''1880, 1900, 1920 and 1930''' | ||
'''1880 '''-- There is a [[Soundex|Soundex]] (phonetic index) on microfilm for families with children who had been born between the last half of 1869 and census day in 1880. | '''1880 '''-- There is a [[Soundex|Soundex]] (phonetic index) on microfilm for families with children who had been born between the last half of 1869 and census day in 1880. | ||
'''1900, 1920 and 1930 -- '''There is a Soundex for each of these years. | '''1900, 1920 and 1930 -- '''There is a Soundex for each of these years. | ||
==== '''Miscelllaneous Indexes''' ==== | ==== '''Miscelllaneous Indexes''' ==== | ||