North Carolina Census

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

Microfilm images
The North Carolina State Archives has these nonpopulation censuses for North Carolina: Agriculture: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 Industry/Manufacturing: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 Social Statistics: 1850, 1860, 1870


 * United States. Census Office. 11th Census, 1890. Schedules Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M0123. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1948. (On 118 reels, beginning with Family History Library film 338160.

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

Existing and lost censuses
For a list of available and missing North Carolina 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