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Online Resources
- United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890 — index and images
- United States Online Census, 1790-1940
- U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820, ($), index.
- Louisiana, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1791-1890, ($), index.
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Online Louisiana indexes and images
Template:Census Online Louisiana
Federal population schedules
Microfilm images
| 1940 N/A | 1910 and Soundex | 1870 |
| 1930 | 1900 and Soundex | 1860 |
| 1920 and Soundex | 1880 and Soundex | 1850 |
| 1810 -1840 |
| 1940 N/A | 1910 T624 Soundex T1267 | 1870 M593 | 1840 M704 |
| 1930 T626 | 1900 T623 Soundex T1048 | 1860 M653 | 1830 M19 |
| 1920 T625 Soundex M1564 | 1880 T9 Soundex T751 | 1850 M432 | 1820 M33 |
| 1810 M252 |
Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the population schedules of Louisiana, click here
Federal non-population schedules
Online indexes and images
| Online Federal Non-Population Schedules for Louisiana | ||||||||||
| Free | Free at Some Libraries (usually with library card) | Pay | ||||||||
| Year | Type | Record Search | Census Bureau | Google Book | Heritage Quest | Ancestry FHL | Ancestry Library | Ancestry Home | ||
| 1890 | Veterans | Link | - | - | - | Link | Link | Link | ||
| 1880 | Mortality | Link | - | - | - | Link | Link | Link | ||
| 1870 | Mortality | Link | - | - | - | Link | Link | Link | ||
| 1860 | Slave owner | - | - | - | Link[1] | Link | Link | Link | ||
| 1860 | Mortality | Link | - | - | - | Link | Link | Link | ||
| 1850 | Slave owner | Link | - | - | Link[1] | Link | Link | Link | ||
| 1850 | Mortality | Link | - | - | - | Link | Link | Link | ||
| 1840 | Pensioners | Link | BookLink | BookLink | - | Link | Link | Link | ||
Microfilm images
Family History LibraryFederal Census Non-Population Schedule Microfilms for California
- 1850 - 1880 Nonpopulation census schedules for Louisiana. Includes Social Statistics, Defective, dependent and delinquent, agricultural and manufacturing schedules FHL Collection Films 1549551-65
- 1850 - 1880 Federal mortality census schedules and related indexes. FHL Collection Films 1421004 and 422428-32.
National ArchivesFederal Census Non-Population ScheduleMicrofilms for Louisiana
- 1935 Census of Business
- 1850 - 1880 Federal mortality census schedules
- 1850 - 1880 Nonpopulation census schedules including Social Statistics, Dependent, delinquent and defective classes, agriculture and manufacturing.
- 1820 - 1880 Manufactures Schedues
Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of Louisiana, click here.
State, territorial, and colonial censuses
Censuses were taken in Louisiana in different years than the federal censuses. These censuses may have different data compared to federal censuses. Check these censuses for more information on a family.
- 1854-1855, and 1856-1857 Orleans Parish (Carrollton only)[2][3]
- 1837 New Orleans only[4]
- 1805 A special census of New Orleans was taken.
- 1804 New Orleans only</ref>[5] Available at the Louisiana State Archives.
- 1699-1860 Territory and State[6]
- 1784-1850 New Orleans only[6]
- 1722-1803 Colony</ref>[7]
- 1726 Louisiana Census[8] Available at Library and Archives Canada
- 1758-1796 Colony</ref>[9]
- 1791 New Orleans only</ref> Available at the Louisiana State Archives.
- 1770-1789 Colony[10]
- 1745 Pointe Coupee Parish</ref>[11]
- 1699-1732 Colony[12]
Existing and lost censuses
For a list of available and missing Louisiana 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
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Sources and footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 HeritageQuest has slave owner schedule images only.
- ↑ Ann S. Lainhart, State Census Records (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992)[[FS Catalog book 973 X2Lai ]], 48.
- ↑ Carrollton (Louisiana), Commissary of Police, Census of inhabitants, 1854-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972. Microfilm of original records at the Orleans Parish courthouse.) [[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=186614&disp=Census+of+Carrollton%2C+1856-1857++ FHL Film 906363 Item 2|#mwt79|mw:ExpandedAttrs|{"attribs":[[{"txt":"href"},{"html":"<a rel=\"mw:ExtLink\" href=\"http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=186614&disp=Census+of+Carrollton%2C+1856-1857++\" about=\"#mwt40\" typeof=\"mw:Transclusion\" data-parsoid='{\"stx\":\"url\",\"dsr\":[12533,12545,null,null],\"pi\":[[]]}' data-mw='{\"parts\":[{\"template\":{\"target\":{\"wt\":\"Carr5457\",\"href\":\"./Template:Carr5457\"},\"params\":{},\"i\":0}}]}'>http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=186614&disp=Census+of+Carrollton%2C+1856-1857++</a><span about=\"#mwt40\" data-parsoid=\"{}\"> FHL Film 906363 Item 2</span>"}]]}]].
- ↑ New Orleans (Louisiana), Mayor, Assessment of property and census of slaves and their owners, 1837 (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972. Microfilm of original records at the Orleans Parish courthouse.) [[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=187101&disp=Assessment+of+property+and+census+of+sla++ FHL Film 906708 Item 3|#mwt76|mw:ExpandedAttrs|{"attribs":[[{"txt":"href"},{"html":"<a rel=\"mw:ExtLink\" href=\"http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=187101&disp=Assessment+of+property+and+census+of+sla++\" about=\"#mwt42\" typeof=\"mw:Transclusion\" data-parsoid='{\"stx\":\"url\",\"dsr\":[12833,12843,null,null],\"pi\":[[]]}' data-mw='{\"parts\":[{\"template\":{\"target\":{\"wt\":\"NO1837\",\"href\":\"./Template:NO1837\"},\"params\":{},\"i\":0}}]}'>http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=187101&disp=Assessment+of+property+and+census+of+sla++</a><span about=\"#mwt42\" data-parsoid=\"{}\"> FHL Film 906708 Item 3</span>"}]]}]].
- ↑ Census of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1804 (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1981. Microfilm of original records in the New Orleans Public Library.) [[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=250907&disp=Census+of+New+Orleans%2C+Louisiana%2C+18++ FHL Film 1309932|#mwt91|mw:ExpandedAttrs|{"attribs":[[{"txt":"href"},{"html":"<a rel=\"mw:ExtLink\" href=\"http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=250907&disp=Census+of+New+Orleans%2C+Louisiana%2C+18++\" about=\"#mwt44\" typeof=\"mw:Transclusion\" data-parsoid='{\"stx\":\"url\",\"dsr\":[13134,13146,null,null],\"pi\":[[]]}' data-mw='{\"parts\":[{\"template\":{\"target\":{\"wt\":\"CensNO04\",\"href\":\"./Template:CensNO04\"},\"params\":{},\"i\":0}}]}'>http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=250907&disp=Census+of+New+Orleans%2C+Louisiana%2C+18++</a><span about=\"#mwt44\" data-parsoid=\"{}\"> FHL Film 1309932</span>"}]]}]].
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Databases for the study of Afro-Louisiana history and genealogy 1699-1860 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, c2000) [[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=972198&disp=Databases+for+the+study+of+Afro-Louisi%20%20&columns=*,0,0 FHL CD-ROM no. 1380|#mwt82|mw:ExpandedAttrs|{"attribs":[[{"txt":"href"},{"html":"<a rel=\"mw:ExtLink\" href=\"http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=972198&disp=Databases+for+the+study+of+Afro-Louisi%20%20&columns=*,0,0\" about=\"#mwt46\" typeof=\"mw:Transclusion\" data-parsoid='{\"stx\":\"url\",\"dsr\":[13468,13478,null,null],\"pi\":[[]]}' data-mw='{\"parts\":[{\"template\":{\"target\":{\"wt\":\"LA9960\",\"href\":\"./Template:LA9960\"},\"params\":{},\"i\":0}}]}'>http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=972198&disp=Databases+for+the+study+of+Afro-Louisi%20%20&columns=*,0,0</a><span about=\"#mwt46\" data-parsoid=\"{}\"> FHL CD-ROM no. 1380</span>"}]]}]].
- ↑ Elizabeth Shown Mills, Natchitoches colonials : censuses, military rolls, and tax lists, 1722-1803 (Chicago, Illinois : Adams Press, 1981) [[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=432120&disp=Natchitoches+colonials%20%20&columns=*,0,0 FHL Book 976.365 X2m|#mwt86|mw:ExpandedAttrs|{"attribs":[[{"txt":"href"},{"html":"<a rel=\"mw:ExtLink\" href=\"http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=432120&disp=Natchitoches+colonials%20%20&columns=*,0,0\" about=\"#mwt51\" typeof=\"mw:Transclusion\" data-parsoid='{\"stx\":\"url\",\"dsr\":[13767,13779,null,null],\"pi\":[[]]}' data-mw='{\"parts\":[{\"template\":{\"target\":{\"wt\":\"MillNatc\",\"href\":\"./Template:MillNatc\"},\"params\":{},\"i\":0}}]}'>http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=432120&disp=Natchitoches+colonials%20%20&columns=*,0,0</a><span about=\"#mwt51\" data-parsoid=\"{}\"> FHL Book 976.365 X2m</span>"}]]}]].
- ↑ "Recensement général de la Louisiane (1726)", digital images, Library and Archives Canada (https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca: accessed 30 Aug 2020), MIKAN 2319142.
- ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Lake Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 1758-1796 ([Lafayette, La., University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973]).
- ↑ Alberte J. Robichaux Jr., Louisiana Census and Militia Lists 1770-1789. 2 vols. (Harvey, Louisiana.: A. J. Robichaux, 1973 and 1974) [[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=151460&disp=Louisiana+census+and+militia+lists%2C+vo%20%20&columns=*,0,0 FHL Book 976.3 X2pr; Fiche 6088510-511|#mwt92|mw:ExpandedAttrs|{"attribs":[[{"txt":"href"},{"html":"<a rel=\"mw:ExtLink\" href=\"http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=151460&disp=Louisiana+census+and+militia+lists%2C+vo%20%20&columns=*,0,0\" about=\"#mwt57\" typeof=\"mw:Transclusion\" data-parsoid='{\"stx\":\"url\",\"dsr\":[14298,14312,null,null],\"pi\":[[]]}' data-mw='{\"parts\":[{\"template\":{\"target\":{\"wt\":\"RubiLA7089\",\"href\":\"./Template:RubiLA7089\"},\"params\":{},\"i\":0}}]}'>http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=151460&disp=Louisiana+census+and+militia+lists%2C+vo%20%20&columns=*,0,0</a><span about=\"#mwt57\" data-parsoid=\"{}\"> FHL Book 976.3 X2pr; Fiche 6088510-511</span>"}]]}]].
- ↑ Bill Barron, Census of Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, 1745 (New Orleans, Louisiana : Polyanthos, c1978) [[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=150901&disp=Census+of+Pointe+Coupee%2C+Louisiana%2C+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 FHL Book 976.3454 X2b|#mwt98|mw:ExpandedAttrs|{"attribs":[[{"txt":"href"},{"html":"<a rel=\"mw:ExtLink\" href=\"http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=150901&disp=Census+of+Pointe+Coupee%2C+Louisiana%2C+%20%20&columns=*,0,0\" about=\"#mwt60\" typeof=\"mw:Transclusion\" data-parsoid='{\"stx\":\"url\",\"dsr\":[14510,14524,null,null],\"pi\":[[]]}' data-mw='{\"parts\":[{\"template\":{\"target\":{\"wt\":\"BarrCens45\",\"href\":\"./Template:BarrCens45\"},\"params\":{},\"i\":0}}]}'>http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=150901&disp=Census+of+Pointe+Coupee%2C+Louisiana%2C+%20%20&columns=*,0,0</a><span about=\"#mwt60\" data-parsoid=\"{}\"> FHL Book 976.3454 X2b</span>"}]]}]].
- ↑ Charles R. Maduell Jr., The Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana from 1699 Through 1732 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publ., 1972)
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