Alaska Census

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Tips If at first you don't find a name, try again under another spelling. Photocopy each ancestor's census. Identify where you found it. Look for an ancestor in every census during her or his lifetime. On the family group record show each person's census listings. Study others in the same household, neighbors, and anyone with the similar names nearby on the census in community context. For a list of the exact date of each federal census, click here.

Federal population schedules

Indexes: fiche, film, or book

For a list of microform and book indexes for the population schedules of Alaska, click here

Federal non-population schedules

Online indexes and images

• Ancestry.com, "1890 Veterans Schedules" at http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8667 (accessed 10 February 2010). Index should includes naval vessels in Alaskan waters, but this is uncertain.

Indexes: fiche, film, or book

1890 Veterans. A census of Union veterans on naval vessels in Alaskan waters.

• Ronald Vern Jackson, et. al., 1890 U. S. Vessels and Navy Census Index: Special Schedule of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and of Union Veterans of the Civil War (Salt Lake City: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1983)[FHL Book 973 X22j 1890].

State, Territorial, and Colonial Censuses

For a list of available Alaska Territory censuses, click here.

Existing and lost censuses

For a list of available and missing Alaska censuses, click here.

Why use a census?

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.

More about censuses

Click here for additional details about how to use censuses, such as:

• index searching tips
• analyzing and using what you find
• census accuracy
• historical background
• contents of various census years and types

Sources and footnotes

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