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''[[United States|United States ]] >  [[United States Census|U.S. Census ]] >  [[Florida|Florida]]  >  [[Florida_Census|Census]]''  
''[[United States|United States ]] >  [[United States Census|U.S. Census ]] >  [[Florida|Florida]]  >  [[Florida Census|Census]]''  


=== Existing and lost censuses  ===
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*If at first you don't find a name, try again under [[Spelling Substitution Tables for the United States and Canada|another spelling]].
*[[Copying Sources|Photocopy]] each ancestor's census. Identify where you found it.
*Look for an ancestor in '''''every''''' census during her or his lifetime.
*On the [[Adding a Custom Event to a PAF Family Group Record|family group record]] show&nbsp;each person's census listings.
*Study&nbsp;others in the same household, neighbors, and anyone with the similar names nearby on the census in [[Research a Family in Community Context|community context]].


For a list of available and missing Florida censuses, [[Florida Censuses Existing and Lost|click here]].
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== Location  ==
*For a list of the exact date of each federal census, [[Florida Censuses Existing and Lost|click here]].


'''1790-1820 --''' There are no federal census records for Florida in this time period.
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'''1830-1930 --''' Census records are available for Florida from 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930.
=== Online Florida indexes and images  ===


The following counties are missing for their years:<br>Brevard 1850; Orange 1830 and 1840; Santa Rosa, 1850: Volusia, 1840 and 1850.
{{Census Online Florida}}


'''1890 --''' The 1890 census and veterans schedules were destroyed.
=== Federal population schedules ===


'''United States Censuses 1850-1920'''—Free Internet census indexes and images to the [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1401638;p=collectionDetails;t=searchable 1850], [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1473181;p=collectionDetails;t=searchable 1860], [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1438024;p=collectionDetails;t=searchable 1870], [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1417683;p=collectionDetails;t=searchable 1880 (index only)], [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;t=searchable;c=1325221 1900], and [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;t=searchable;c=1488411 1920 (partial index only)] can be viewed on the FamilySearch Record Search. These indexes show every name listed on the census, and except for 1880 and 1920, are also linked to census images including information about each person’s residence, age, birthplace, occupation, other family members, and neighbors.
==== Microfilm images  ====


== Historical Background  ==
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'''1819--'''Spain sold Florida to the United States. The treaty was not finalized until 1821.
==== Indexes: fiche, film, or book  ====


'''1845--'''Florida becomes a state.
For a list of microform and book indexes for the population schedules of Florida, [[Florida Population Schedule Indexes: Fiche, Film, or Book|click here]]


== Indexes ==
=== Federal non-population schedules ===


'''United States Census Indexes 1850-1920'''—Free Internet census indexes to the [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1401638;p=collectionDetails;t=searchable 1850], [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1473181;p=collectionDetails;t=searchable 1860], [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1438024;p=collectionDetails;t=searchable 1870], [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1417683;p=collectionDetails;t=searchable 1880], [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;t=searchable;c=1325221 1900], and [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;t=searchable;c=1488411 1920 (partial index only)] can be viewed on the FamilySearch Record Search.
==== Online indexes and images  ====


'''Statewide indexes'''--Indexes are available for the&nbsp;1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, and 1870 censuses. Soundex (phonetic) indexes on microfilm exist for part of the 1880 and all of the 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 censuses.<br>
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| bgcolor="#cccccc" align="center" | '''Heritage Quest'''
| bgcolor="#cccccc" align="center" | '''Ancestry FHL'''
| bgcolor="#cccccc" align="center" | '''Ancestry Library'''
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| '''1885'''
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| align="center" | [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3530 Link]
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| align="center" | [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3530 Link]
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| '''1870'''
| Mortality
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| '''1860'''
| Slave owner
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| align="center" | [http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/census/results/image?urn=urn%3Aproquest%3AUS%3Bcensus%3B8457527%3B-1%3B8%3B18&searchtype=3&offset=1&locthreadid=4479091&hitcount=5479 Link]<ref name="HQSlave">HeritageQuest has slave owner schedule images only.</ref>
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| align="center" | [http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=7668&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 Link]
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| '''1860'''
| Mortality
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| align="center" | [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3530 Link]
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| align="center" | [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3530 Link]
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| '''1850'''
| Slave owner
| align="center" | [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1420440;t=browsable;w=0 Link]
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| align="center" | [http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/census/results/image?urn=urn%3Aproquest%3AUS%3Bcensus%3B12159696%3B-1%3B7%3B18&searchtype=3&offset=1&locthreadid=8194799&hitcount=4245 Link]<ref name="HQSlave" />  
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| align="center" | [http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=8055&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 Link]
| align="center" | [http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=8055&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 Link]
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| '''1850'''
| Mortality
| align="center" | [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1420441 Link]
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| align="center" | [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3530 Link]
| align="center" | [http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3530 Link]
| align="center" | [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3530 Link]
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| '''1840'''
| Pensioners
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| align="center" | [http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1840c-01.pdf BookLink]
| align="center" | [http://books.google.com/books?id=W7JYAAAAMAAJ&dq=1840+census+pensioners&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=W0XUmfgahX&sig=WRyMIVwiePLwKmlxhbchJl1ZeeA&hl=en&ei=SJ0MSvSrBqOMtgf19I2FCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#PPA61,M1 BookLink]
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| align="center" | [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7678 Link]
| align="center" | [http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7678 Link]
| align="center" | [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7678 Link]
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'''Ancestry--'''All Florida federal census records are indexed at [http://www.ancestry.com/ www.ancestry.com].
==== Microfilm images  ====


Florida State Census of 1885 is available online at [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1457854;t=browsable;w=0;p=collectionDetails Record Search]
*


Florida State Census of 1935 is available online at [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1457856;t=browsable;w=0;p=collectionDetails Record Search]
==== Indexes: fiche, film, or book  ====


Florida State Census of 1945 is available online at [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1457855;t=browsable;w=0;p=collectionDetails Record Search]
For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of Florida, [[Florida Non-Population Schedule Indexes: Fiche, Film, or Book|click here]].  


== Special Censuses ==
=== State, territorial, and colonial censuses ===


==== Mortality Schedules<br> ====
*'''1945''' Missing precincts: Alachua 18; Bay 8, 9, 12; Citrus 13; DeSoto 6, 7; Gadsden 2; Highlands 8; Liberty 3; Orange 1-11; Palm Beach 27, 29, 34; Polk 34; Seminole 15; Volusia 14; Washington 18.<ref name="Lainh">Ann S. Lainhart, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26517040 State Census Records]'' (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992)[[{{Lainha}}]], 30-32.</ref>
*'''1935''' Missing precincts: Alachua 4, 5, 18, 21; Baker 6; Bradford 1; Citrus 13; DeSoto 6-7; Duval 14A, 36; Flagler 2, 6; Lee 20; Levy 12; Liberty 5; Martin 7; Nassau 4; Orange 1-10; Palm Beach 9; Polk 19, 23, 34; St. Johns 19; Sarasota 5; all of Walton.<ref name="Lainh" />
*'''1895''' State census.<ref name="Lainh" /> Manatee<ref>{{Schnei}}</ref> and Nassau<ref>Jacksonville Genealogical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2507618 1895 State Census, Nassau County, Florida]'' (Jacksonville, Fla.: Jacksonville Genealogical Society, 1976)[FHL Book 975.911 X2j].</ref> counties are published.
*'''1885''' Alachua, Clay, Columbia, and Nassau missing<ref name="Lainh" /><ref>{{Putna}}</ref>
*'''1884-1885''' Franklin County<ref>{{Frankl}}</ref>
*'''1875''' Alachua County only<ref name="Lainh" /><ref>{{Alachu}}</ref>
*'''1867-1868''' Levi County only<ref name="Lainh" /><ref>{{Leavit}}</ref>
*'''1867''' Fragments of Franklin, Hernando, Madison, Orange, and Santa Rosa counties only remain<ref name="Lainh" />
*'''1866''' Franklin County, families with children only<ref name="Lainh" /><ref>"1866 Census, Franklin County, Florida" in USGenWeb at http://files.usgwarchives.org/fl/franklin/census/1866.txt (accessed 25 January 2010).</ref><ref>"Franklin County Children ages 5-18 in 1866" ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10692596 Florida Armchair Researcher]'' 1, no. 2 (Spring 1984): 7-8. Only a parent's name is listed together with the number of children in the household.</ref>
*'''1856''' Putnam County, families with children only<ref>"School Children Ages 5 to 18 in Putnam County, 1856" ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24093484 Putnam County Genealogical Society Quarterly Journal]'' New Series 1, no. 2 (Fall 1996): 31-32. Only a parent's name is listed together with the number of children in the household.</ref>
*'''1855''' Gadsden, Marion, and Franklin counties only<ref name="Lainh" /><ref>"Marion County in the 1855 State Census" ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10692596 Florida Armchair Researcher]'' 1, no. 3 (Summer 1984): 24-35, and 1, no. 4 (Fall 1984): 30-40.</ref>
*'''1825''' Leon County only<ref name="Lainh" /><ref>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/30138477?seq=1 Dorothy Dodd, "The Florida Census of 1825,"] ''Florida Historical Quarterly'', 22 (1943): 34-40.</ref>
*'''1820''' Spanish Escambia River,<ref name="CCISCP">William S. Coker, Polly Coker, and G. Douglas Inglis, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6942453 Spanish Censuses of Pensacola, 1784-1820: a Genealogical Guide to Spanish Pensacola]'' (Pensacola, Fla.: Perdido Bay Press, 1980)[FHL Book 975.999/P1 X2c].</ref> and Pensacola<ref name="CCISCP" /><ref>"Spanish of Pensacola, 1820," ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1569457 Florida Historical Quarterly]'', 24 (1945): 30-38.</ref>
*'''1814''' Spanish outside St. Augustine<ref name="DRMills">Donna Rachal Mills, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26097941 Florida's First Families: Translated Abstracts of Pre-1821 Spanish Censuses]'' (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Mills Historical Press, 1992)[FHL Book 975.9 X2f].</ref>
*'''1813''' Spanish St. Augustine, St. John's, and Fernandina<ref name="DRMills" />
*'''1793''' Spanish St. Augustine and North River<ref name="DRMills" />
*'''1787''' Spanish East Florida<ref name="DRMills" />
*'''1786''' Spanish St. Augustine and perimeter<ref name="DRMills" />
*'''1784-1785 '''Spanish St. Augustine<ref>Lawrence H. Feldman, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39127725 Last Days of British Saint Augustine, 1784-1785: a Spanish Census of the English Colony of East Florida]'' ([Baltimore, Md.]: Clearfield Co., 1998)[FHL Book 975.918/S1 X2f].</ref>
*'''1784''' Spanish Pensacola<ref name="CCISCP" />


The Florida State Archives has the 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 mortality schedules. The Family History Library has the published indexes for each of these schedules.<br>
=== Existing and lost censuses  ===


*[http://mortalityschedules.com/ Mortality Schedules 1850-1880]
For a list of available and missing Florida censuses, [[Florida Censuses Existing and Lost|click here]]. <br>


==== Slave Holder Schedules ====
=== Why use a census? ===


'''1850 United States Census Slave Schedules'''—A free Internet index and images to the 1850 United States Census Slave Schedules can be viewed on the [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1420440;p=collectionDetails;t=searchable FamilySearch Record Search – Pilot Site] listing each '''slave owner's''' name and residence. It also shows the age, gender, and color of the slaves. Slave names are not normally listed.  
A well-indexed census is one of the easiest ways to locate where an ancestor's family lived and when they lived there. You can also use censuses to follow the changes in a family over time, and identify neighbors. These and other clues provided by censuses are important because they help find additional kinds of records about the family.  


== Colonial, Territorial and State Censuses ==
=== More about censuses ===


Colonial, territorial, and state censuses exist for 1783, 1786, 1790, 1793, 1814, 1825, 1837, 1845, 1855, 1865, 1868, 1875, 1885, 1895, 1935, and 1945. (Censuses taken in later years were destroyed.) Beginning with 1855, specific information is given for each individual. Only scattered fragments are available for the 1855 through 1895 censuses.
[[United States Census|Click here]] for additional details about how to use censuses, such as:


The censuses listed above are at the Florida State Archives. The Family History Library has returns for a few counties for various years on microfilm. The 1885 enumerations for 35 counties are on Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=82520&disp=Schedules+of+the+Florida+state+census+of++ 888962-74].<br>
:*[[United States Census Searching|index searching tips]]
:*[[United States Census Analyzing Census Data|analyzing and using what you find]]
:*[[United States Census Accuracy|census accuracy]]
:*[[United States Census Historical Background|historical background]]
:*[[United States Census#Contents_of_Federal_Censuses|contents of various census years and types]]


'''''1885 Florida State Census'' '''--&nbsp;This census includes data concerning sex, age, relationship, occupation, place of birth of each family member and parents. There is also census data available for agriculture, manufacture and mortality. <br>A related&nbsp;wiki article describes a collection that is available for free online at FamilySearch Record Search – Pilot Site.To access the related wiki article that describes the&nbsp;census, see [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Florida_1885_State_Census_Records Florida 1885 State Census&nbsp;wiki article].&nbsp;To access the collection, see [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1457854;t=browsable;w=0 '''1885 '''Florida State Population Census.]&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
=== Sources and footnotes  ===


'''1835 '''[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1457856;t=browsable;w=0;p=collectionDetails Florida State Census] (images only)--Includes: name of each person in home, address, age, gender, race, relationship to head of household, place of birth, occupation, education, own or rent.
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'''1845 '''[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1457855;t=browsable;w=0;p=collectionDetails Florida State Census] (images only)--Includes: name of each person in the home, address, age, gender, race, place of birth, occupation &amp; education.
 
== Web Sites  ==
 
[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=allCollections;r=0 FamilySearch Record Search] has free census indexes and images for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1900; but indexes only for 1880, and 1920.
 
Ancestry.com:&nbsp; [http://www.ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com]
 
Heritage Quest Online:&nbsp; [http://www.heritagequestonline.com http://www.heritagequestonline.com]
 
Census Online:&nbsp; [http://www.census-online.com/links/FL/ http://www.census-online.com/links/FL/]
 
Genealogy Today:&nbsp; [http://dir.genealogytoday.com/usa/fl/census.html http://dir.genealogytoday.com/usa/fl/census.html]


Access Genealogy:&nbsp;[http://www.accessgenealogy.com/census/florida.htm http://www.accessgenealogy.com/census/florida.htm]
{{Place|Florida}} {{stub}}  
 
Mortality Schedules:&nbsp;[http://mortalityschedules.com/ http://mortalityschedules.com/]
 
== Sources  ==
 
{{reflist}}  


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