Kentucky Census: Difference between revisions

''[[United States|United States ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[United States Census|U.S. Census ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[Kentucky|Kentucky]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[Kentucky_Census|Census]]''  

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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.  

*Study 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 the exact date of each federal census, [[Kentucky Censuses Existing and Lost|click here]].

==== Microfilm images  ====

|+ '''Federal Census Microfilms Available from the [[Family History Library|Family History Library]]'''  

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|+ '''Federal Census Microfilms Available from the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]]'''  

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==== Online indexes and images  ====

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| '''1890'''  

*'''1890 Veterans''' United States. Census Office. 11th Census, 1890. ''Schedules Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War.'' National Archives Microfilm Publications, M0123. Washington, DC: National Archives, 1948. (On 118 Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=230777&disp=Schedules+enumerating+Union+veterans+and%20%20&columns=*,0,0 films, beginning with 338160]). Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=230777&disp=Schedules+enumerating+Union+veterans+and%20%20&columns=*,0,0 films for Kentucky are 338160–2.] Each schedule may contain the following information: the veteran’s name (or if he did not survive, the names of both the widow and her deceased husband); rank; company; regiment or vessel; date of enlistment and discharge; length of service in years, months, and days; post office and address; and disabilities incurred. The schedule also contains remarks necessary for a complete statement of his term of service. Many Confederate veterans were accidentally enumerated.

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*'''1870-1936''' (mostly 1895-1910) school censuses for many Kentucky counties. School censuses, where they exist, may only be available at local boards of education. A few are at the Kentucky State Archives, Kentucky Historical Society, or [[Family History Library|Family History Library]].<ref name="Lainh">Ann S. Lainhart, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26517040 State Census Records]'' (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992)[[{{Lainha}}]], 47.</ref>

|+ '''Selected County School Censuses'''  

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*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=744148&disp=School+census%2C+1900-1903++ Boyle 1900-1903]  

*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=789489&disp=School+census+%26+enumeration+sheets%2C+++ Bracken 1894-1928]  

*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=116818&disp=School+census%2C+1902-1932++ Elliott 1902-1932]  

*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=408588&disp=School+records++ Fayette 1898-1910]  

*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=318191&disp=School+census%2C+1877-1906++ Logan 1877-1906], [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=782188&disp=Logan+County%2C+Kentucky+1905+school+cen%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1905], [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=782187&disp=Logan+County%2C+Kentucky+1895+school+cen%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1895]  

*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=644532&disp=School+census+and+enumeration+sheets%2C+++ Lyon 1885-1932]  

*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=768802&disp=School+census%2C+1894-1899%2C+1903-1++ Metcalfe 1894-1899, 1903-1905]<br>

=== Existing and lost censuses  ===

=== Why use a census?  ===