Delaware Census

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Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the population schedules of Delaware, click here

Microfilm images

 * 1860 slave owners. Family History Library film 803100
 * 1850 slave owners. Family History Library film 442884

Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of Delaware, click here.

State, territorial, and colonial censuses

 * 1782 Population schedules for these "hundreds" (townships): Branywine, Christiana, St. George's, Duck Creek, Little Creek, and Lewes Town. The state census has been reconstructed for the rest of the state from tax lists.
 * 1693 A special census was taken of Swedes who were associated with the Swedish Lutheran Church and who were living in Pennsylvania, Delaware, west New Jersey, and Cecil County, Maryland. The census and an index to it are in Craig, Peter Stebbins. The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware. Winter Park, Florida: SAG Publications, 1993. (Family History Library book 973 X4c.)
 * 1671 New Castle County, Delaware; Philadelphia and Delaware counties in Pennsylvania; and Burlington County, New Jersey.

Existing and lost censuses
For a list of available and missing Delaware 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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 * index searching tips
 * analyzing and using what you find
 * census accuracy
 * historical background
 * contents of various census years and types