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Census

Online Resources

• 1678 List of colonists on St Thomas, 1678 at Caribbean GenWeb
• 1678-1753 Leeward Islands Census Substitutes at Findmypast; index ($)
• 1772-1821 St. Croix, Danish West Indies, Denmark, Slave Plantation and Town Head Tax Lists, 1772-1821 at Ancestry - index & images ($)
• 1783 Loyalists who fled to Jamaica (mainly from South Carolina) at RootsWeb
• 1815-1832 St. Croix, Danish West Indies, Denmark, Free Colored Censuses, 1815-1832 at Ancestry - index & images ($)
• 1835 1835 Census St John at Caribbean Genealogy Library, images
• 1835-1911 Danish West Indies, Denmark, Census, 1835-1911 at Ancestry — index & images ($)
• 1841 St Croix 1841 Census at Caribbean GenWeb
• 1841 List of landowners of the 1841 St John Census at Caribbean GenWeb
• 1841-1901 Danish West Indies Census, 1841-1901 at Ancestry — index & images ($)
• 1841-1911 Virgin Islands US, Census Records, 1841-1911 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images

Available on Microfilm

Federal census records on microfilm are available from the FamilySearch Library and FamilySearch Centers and Regional Branches of U.S. National Archives.

1930. For a microfilm of the civilian populations schedules, see U.S. Virgin Islands, 1930 Federal Census: Population Schedules; NARA microfilm publications T626. (FS Library film 2342402).

1920. For a Soundex index and population schedules for the United States Virgin Islands on microfilm, see U.S. Virgin Islands, 1920 Federal Census: Soundex and Population Schedules.

Danish Censuses

• 1688 Gary T. Horlacher, and David W. Knight, The 1688 Census of The Danish West Indies: Portrait of a Colony in Crisis, Local Knowledge Series, vol. 2 (St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands: Little Nordside Press, 1998) [FS Library book 972.9722 X2h]. Based on original records by Governor of Danish West Indies.
• 1700s-1900s Denmark Censuses (West Indies) at Rigsarkivet (Danish National Archives); images
  • This contains lists of the population of the Danish West Indies with names and other information such as property, age, gender, religion, family, place of birth etc. This includes e.g. actual censuses, but also muster rolls, land registers, church books and reports about births and deaths.
• 1835-1911 United States Virgin Islands Census, 1835-1911 (Danish Period) at Ancestry - index & images ($)
• 1841-1911 Danmark, Rentekammeret (Vestindien), Census records, 1841-1911 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed for the Genealogical Society of Utah, [1965?]) [on 71 FS Library films starting with 039199] Text in Danish and English. Danish Virgin Islands census schedules for 1841, 1846, 1850, 1855, 1857, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890, 1901, and 1911.
• 1850-1911 Statens Arkiver, Dansk Data Arkiv, "St. Croix Census Records" in Dansk Demografisk Database [Internet site] at http://www.ddd.dda.dk/soeg_stcroix.html (accessed 20 April 2009). Shows names, sex, age, address, census year, and sometimes relaitonships or occupations for 1850, 1855, 1857, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890, 1901, and 1911.

Census Substitutes

• Registers of Dog Owners, 1917-1926, are online at the Caribbean Genealogy Library.