User:Hanna5974/sandbox/census

Guide to locating government census records, population records, or church census records for ancestry, family history, and genealogy research.

What Are Census Records?

 * A census is a count and description of the population of a country, state, county, or city for a specific date.
 * A census took a "snapshot" of members of a household only for that date.
 * For some countries census records are called "population records".
 * There are also sometimes census records kept by a state church, particularly by the Lutheran church in Scandinavian countries.
 * What can you find in census records?
 * How do you find census records?
 * What are privacy restrictions?

Online Genealogical Records Pages
On the main page for each U.S. State page and country page, a blue button leads to a listing of online record collections.

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 * Also, all the available Online Genealogy Records pages are linked at Online Genealogy Records by Location.

Wiki Articles
Each U.S. state and country page has full articles written about finding and using census record if they were kept.s. These articles provide details on the dates censuses werekept, links to online records, and where records are kept in archives and other records repositories.

Category Links to Articles
Another way to jump quickly to articles for different states and countries is to find them in category pages. These categories have direct links to topic articles for each country and U.S.State:
 * Category:United States Census
 * Category:Census records by country