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Indexes: fiche, film, or book

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Indexes: fiche, film, or book

For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of Michigan, click here.

State, territorial, and colonial censuses

Michigan took censuses 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.

  • 1843-1969 Statewide annual county census of school age children.[1]
  • 1935 State special unemployment census[2]
  • 1934 State special old age pension act taxable citizens census,[3] coverage incomplete
  • 1848-1924 Statewide annual county census of deaf, dumb, blind, and insane.[4]
  • 1904 Lost[5][6]
  • 1894 State census</ref>[7] Includes population, mortality, agricultural, industrial, social statistics, or veterans schedules in Allegan, Barry, Bay, Benzie, Dickinson,[8] Emmet, Gratiot, Hillsdale,[9] Ingham, Iosco, Isabella, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent,[10] Keweenaw, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Menominee, Midland, Montcalm,[11] Muskegon, Newaygo,[12] Ottawa, St. Clair, St. Joseph, and Washtenaw[13] counties. For details see Barnett. Link to images of state census 1884 - 1894 http://seekingmichigan.org/discover
  • 1888 Civil War veterans only</ref>[14]
  • 1862-1886 Military levy annual statewide county censuses mostly lost; a few rarely at county clerks' offices.[15]
  • 1884 State census</ref>[16] Includes population, mortality, agricultural, industrial, or social statistics schedules in Barry, Bay, Benzie, Emmet, Hillsdale, Ingham, Isabella, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent,[17] Keweenaw, Lake, Lapeer, Leelanau, Lenawee, Menominee, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo,[18] Ottawa, Roscommon, St. Clair, St. Joseph, Van Buren (Paw Paw Twp.), Washtenaw, Wayne,[19] and Wexford counties. For details see Barnett.
  • 1874 State census</ref>[20] Only males over 21 years by name, and females in age cagegories in population schedules for Eaton and Houton counties only. Eaton also includes agricultural and industrial schedules. For details see Barnett.
  • 1864 State census</ref>[21] Only males over 21 years by name, and females in age cagegories in population, agricultural and industrial schedules in Clinton, Eaton, (Houghton population only), and Newaygo counties. For details see Barnett.
  • 1854 State census</ref>[22] Only males over 21 years by name, and females in age cagegories in population, agricultural, and industrial schedules for Eaton County. For details see Barnett.
  • 1845 State census.</ref>[23] Only males over 21 years by name, and females in age cagegories in Eaton, Lenawee,[24] Oakland,[25] St. Clair,[26] St. Joseph,[27] Van Buren, and Washtenaw counties. For details see Barnett.
  • 1837 State census.[28] Tallies only; individual names not included except in Kalamazoo County.[29]
  • 1834 Territorial census. Tallies only; individual names not included except in Crawford County (now Wisconsin),</ref>[30] and Lenawee County.[31]
  • 1827 Territorial census mostly lost. Surviving fragments for Wayne (Detroit),</ref>[32][33][34][35] Monroe (Lawrence Twp.), and Washtenaw counties
  • 1810 Territorial census,[36] Detroit,[37][38] and Michilimackinac (everything north of Saginaw Bay)[39][40]
  • 1805/1806 Territorial census, Detroit[41][42][43]
  • 1796 Colonial census, Detroit</ref>[44][45][46]
  • 1792 Colonial census, Petite Côte (south shore of Detroit River)[47]
  • 1782 Colonial census, Detroit,[48][49][50] and south shore of Detroit River[51]
  • 1780 Colonial census, Fort St. Joseph (now Niles)[52][53]
  • 1779 Colonial census, Detroit[54][55]
  • 1768 Colonial census, Detroit area[56][57]
  • 1765 Colonial census, Detroit</ref>[58][59]
  • 1762 Colonial census, Detroit</ref>[60][61]
  • 1750 Colonial census, Detroit area[62][63]
  • 1743 Colonial census, Huron Indian Mission of the Assumption (south shore of Detroit River)[64]
  • 1710 Colonial census, Detroit[65][66]

Most state, territorial, and colonial censuses are at the Michigan State Archives. Further archives cited in Barnett, pages 21-23.

Existing and lost censuses

For a list of available and missing Michigan 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:

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Michigan 1894 Census - FamilySearch Historical Records


Sources and footnotes

  1. ↑ name="Barnett"LeRoy Barnett, "State Censuses of Michigan: A Tragedy of Lost Treasures" and Appendices in Family Trails [[Template:BarnettL]] 6, no. 1 (Summer-Fall 1978): 10.
  2. ↑ Barnett, 13-15.
  3. ↑ Barnett, 12-13.
  4. ↑ Barnett, 11.
  5. ↑ Ann S. Lainhart, State Census Records (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992)[[FS Catalog book 973 X2Lai ]], 62-66.
  6. ↑ Barnett, 9-10.
  7. ↑ Barnett, 8-9, 21-23.
  8. ↑ Eva Harmison-Arnold, "1894 State Census of Dickinson County, Michigan," Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine [[Template:DSGRM]] 42 (1978): 11.
  9. ↑ Southern Michigan Genealogical Society, Hillsdale County, Michigan, 1894 state census index ([Michigan] : Southern Michigan Genealogical Society, 1989) [[Template:SMGSHill94]].
  10. ↑ Evelyn M. Sawyer, Index to the 1894 state census, Kent County, Michigan (Grand Rapids [Michigan] : Western Michigan Genealogical Society, c1992) [[Template:SawyKent94]].
  11. ↑ Betty Spooner, Index to the State of Michigan census for Montcalm County, Michigan, 1884, 1894 (Greenville, Mich. : [s.n.], 1980).
  12. ↑ Evelyn M. Sawyer, Index to the 1894 Newaygo County, Michigan state census ([Hudsonville, Mich.] : E.M. Sawyer, 1997) [[Template:SawyNewa94]].
  13. ↑ Sarah Casewell Angell Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Index of 1894 state census for Washtenaw County, Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan : Genealogical Society of Washtenaw County, Michigan, c1984) [[Template:GSWCWash94]].
  14. ↑ Barnett, 12.
  15. ↑ Barnett, 12.
  16. ↑ Barnett, 6-8, 21-23.
  17. ↑ Western Michigan Genealogical Society (Grand Rapids, Michigan), Index to the 1884 state census of Kent County, Michigan (Grand Rapids, MI : Western Michigan Genealogical Society, ©1990) [[Template:WMGSKent84]].
  18. ↑ Evelyn M. Sawyer, Index to the 1884 Newaygo County, Michigan state census ([Hudsonville, Mich.] : E.M. Sawyer, 1997) [[Template:SawyNewa84]].
  19. ↑ 1884 Wayne County censuses for the townships of Greenfield, Dearborn, Livonia, Huron, Ecorse, Grosse Pointe, and Hamtramck, and more are being published a few pages at a time in Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine [[Template:DSGRM]] starting in volume 44 to the present.
  20. ↑ Barnett, 6, 21-23.
  21. ↑ Barnett, 5, 21-23.
  22. ↑ Barnett, 4-5, 21-23.
  23. ↑ Barnett, 4, 21-23.
  24. ↑ "Census Records of Lenawee County, Michigan Territory, 1845" (Typescript, Michigan State Library) as cited in Lainhart, 66. Includes areas now in Hillsdale County.
  25. ↑ Mrs. Edmund H. Whitehead, "State Census of Oakland County, Michigan for the year 1845" (Typescript index, Michigan State Library, 1937) as cited in LeRoy Barnett, "State Censuses of Michigan: A Tragedy of Lost Treasurers" and Appendices in Family Trails [[Template:BarnettL]] 6, no. 1 (Summer-Fall 1978): 24.
  26. ↑ St. Clair County Family History Group (Port Huron, Michigan), Index to 1845 state census of St. Clair County, Michigan : heads of families and names of white males over twenty-one (Port Huron, Michigan : St. Clair County Family History Group (MI), c1990) [[Template:StClair45]].
  27. ↑ Bette Williams, "1845 St. Joseph County, Michigan" ([Kalmazoo: B. Williams, 1968]) [[Template:WilliamsStJoe45]]. Includes index.
  28. ↑ Barnett, 4.
  29. ↑ Ruth Robbins Monteith, and Ethel W. Williams, "Michigan State Census of Kalamazoo County, 1837" Michigan Heritage [[Template:MichHeri37]], v.1: nos. 2, 3, 4; v.2: nos. 2, 3, 4; v.3: nos. 1, 2, 3; v.4: no. 2. Transcript of names of heads of house and ages of family members, together with annotations often giving outside place of origin.
  30. ↑ Barnett, 3, 21-23.
  31. ↑ Lucy Walcott, "Census Records of Lenawee County" [1834] (Michigan State Archives, 1935) as cited in LeRoy Barnett, "State Censuses of Michigan: A Tragedy of Lost Treasurers" and Appendices in Family Trails [[Template:BarnettL]] 6, no. 1 (Summer-Fall 1978): 24.
  32. ↑ Barnett, 3, 21-23.
  33. ↑ Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, Michigan historical collections (Publisher varies) [[Template:MichHistColl]], 12: following page 461. Typescript census copy listing heads of house and ages of other household members.
  34. ↑ Mrs. Edgar Montgomery, and Mrs. Raymond Millbrook, "Wayne County Returns from the Territorial Census of 1827," Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine [[Template:DSGRM]] 19, no. 2 (Winter 1955): 51-57.
  35. ↑ Donna Valley Russell, Michigan Censuses 1710-1830: Under the French, British, and Americans (Detroit : Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1982) [[Template:RussMich1030]], 149-60. Includes index and history of each census.
  36. ↑ Barnett, 28-29.
  37. ↑ Eva Harmison, "An 1810 census of the District of Detroit, Territory of Michigan" Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine [[Template:DSGRM]] 32, no. 1 (Fall 1968): 17-23.
  38. ↑ Russell, 87-99.
  39. ↑ "Schedule of the whole number of persons within the Division allotted to Samuel Abbott, Michilimackinac, Feb. 9, 1811" manuscript in the Abbott Family papers in the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library as cited in Barnett, 29.
  40. ↑ Russell, 100.
  41. ↑ Barnett, 28.
  42. ↑ "Inhabitants of Detroit in the year 1806" Detroit Daily Post [newspaper] May 9, 1876, p. 4 as cited in Barnett, 28.
  43. ↑ Russell, 83-86.
  44. ↑ "A State of the Number of Male Inhabitants From 16 to 50 Years of Age in the Town of Detroit" Original in the Winthrop Sargent Papers at the Ohio Historical Society as cited in Barnett, 28.
  45. ↑ Russell, 59-74.
  46. ↑ Donna Valley Stuart, "Detroit 1796 Census," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 69 (1981): 185. [[Template:NGSQbook]].
  47. ↑ Russell, 57-58.
  48. ↑ Barnett, 27.
  49. ↑ "A Survey of the Settlement of Detroit made by Order of Major De Peyster the 16th Day of July 1782" Michigan historical collections (Publisher varies) [[Template:MichHistColl69]], 10 (1908): 601-13.
  50. ↑ Russell, 49, 52-56.
  51. ↑ Russell, 49-52.
  52. ↑ "Census of Every Woman, Child and Slave Resident of the Post of St. Joseph" Michigan historical collections (Publisher varies) [[Template:MichHistColl69]], 10 (1908): 406-407.
  53. ↑ Russell, 47-48.
  54. ↑ "Survey of the settlements of Detroit taken 31st March 1779" Michigan historical collections (Publisher varies) [[Template:MichHistColl69]], 10 (1908): 311-27.
  55. ↑ Russell, 39-46.
  56. ↑ Ernest J. Lajeunesse, "Census of all the Inhabitants of Detroit made by Philip DeJean in the Year 1768" in The Windsor border region, Canada's southernmost frontier; a collection of documents ([Toronto] Champlain Society, 1960), 63-64, as cited in Barnett, 27.
  57. ↑ Russell, 35-38.
  58. ↑ Russell, 29-34.
  59. ↑ Donna Valley Stuart, "1765 Census of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan," Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine [[Template:DSGRM]] 43, (1979): 19.
  60. ↑ Russell, 19-28.
  61. ↑ Donna Valley Stuart, "Detroit 1762 Census," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 68 (1980): 15. [[Template:NGSQbook]].
  62. ↑ Ernest J. Lajeunesse, "Census of the Inhabitants of Detroit on September 1st, 1750" in The Windsor border region, Canada's southernmost frontier; a collection of documents ([Toronto] Champlain Society, 1960), 54-56, as cited in Barnett, 27.
  63. ↑ Russell, 15-18.
  64. ↑ Russell, 13-14.
  65. ↑ C.M. Burton, "Census of Detroit de Pontchartrain in the Year 1710" Michigan historical collections (Publisher varies) [[Template:MichHistColl80]], 33 (1903): 492-94. Includes extensive biographical annotations.
  66. ↑ Russell, 3-12.
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