Idaho Census

United States U.S. Census Idaho Census

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Photocopy each ancestor's census. Identify where you found it.
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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.

Online Idaho indexes and images[edit | edit source]

Template:Census Online Idaho

Federal population schedules[edit | edit source]

Microfilm images[edit | edit source]

Indexes: fiche, film, or book[edit | edit source]

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

Federal non-population schedules[edit | edit source]

Online indexes and images[edit | edit source]

Online Federal Non-Population Schedules for Idaho
		Free	Free at Some Libraries (usually with library card)			Pay
Year	Type	Idaho State Archives	Heritage Quest	Ancestry FHL	Ancestry Library	Ancestry Home
1880	Agricultural, Industrial, Mortality, and Other	BookLink	-	-	-	-
1880	Mortality	-	-	Link	Link	Link
1870	Agricultural, Industrial, Mortality, and Other	BookLink	-	-	-	-
1870	Mortality	-	-	Link	Link	Link

Microfilm images[edit | edit source]

Indexes: fiche, film, or book[edit | edit source]

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

State, territorial, and colonial censuses[edit | edit source]

State or Territory Censuses of Idaho

1856

Malad County (part of the 1856 Utah Territory census)^[1]

The area that is now Idaho was for some years included in the federal censuses under the name of other territories:

1870 and later in Idaho Territory or State^[2]
1860 Washington Territory (for Idaho residents, if any, see the Spokane County, Washington census)^[2]
1850 Oregon Territory (no known white residents in what is now Idaho)^[3]

Also, in 1860 and 1870 a few households on thin slices of far southern Idaho were included in the federal censuses of Cache County, and possibly Box Elder County, Utah.^[2]

Also, the 1856 territorial census of Utah included residents in "Malad County" and the northern part of Cache County who lived on the south edge of Idaho.^[1]

Idaho itself did not take any state or territorial censuses of its residents.

Existing and lost censuses[edit | edit source]

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

Why use a census?[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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

Sources and footnotes[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named BLDilts
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 William Thorndale, and William Dollarhide, Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1987)[[Template:Thorndale]], 93.
↑ Thorndale and Dollarhide, 281.

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[BLDilts-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named BLDilts

[TandD-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 William Thorndale, and William Dollarhide, Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1987)[[Template:Thorndale]], 93.

[3] Thorndale and Dollarhide, 281.

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