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

What Are Census Records?

 * What can you find in census records?
 * How do you find death records?
 * What are privacy restrictions?

Using the FamilySearch Research Wiki to Find Death Records
The Wiki helps researchers acquire census records with articles for each locality covering:
 * Links to online census records collections.
 * Information on where records are created and/or stored with addresses and instructions for making written requests.

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. The first listings on an Online Genealogy Records page will be links for death, death, and death records. These collections follow the publishing organizations rights of privacy regulations.

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

Vital Records/Civil Registration and Church Records Wiki Articles
Each U.S. state and country page has full articles written about finding Vital Records/Civil Registration or Church Records. If you have not found the death record online, these articles provide details on dates of availability, archived records, records found at lower jurisdictions, and writing for records. These articles will help more with finding death records not currently online.

Sidebar Links: Vital Records/Civil Registration and Church Records Articles
Each country or U.S. state page has a main Wiki page with a sidebar on the right side. In this sidebar, you will find links to articles about Church Records and Vital Records or Civil Registration. These articles will give specific information on the records for that locality and how to access them.

Category Links to Vital Records/Civil Registration and Church Records 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 Vital Records/Civil Registration and Church Records articles for each country and U.S.State:
 * U.S. States Church Records
 * Category:Church Records by Country
 * Category: United States Vital Records
 * Category:Civil Registration

Letter-Writing Guides for Other Languages
To aid you in writing letters to request copies of death records, the Wiki provides several "Letter-Writing Guides". Links are found under "Research Tools" on country main pages. They provide translations into foreign languages for typical phrases you would want to use in letters.

'''Before composing a letter, read the "Civil Registration" Wiki article for the country to discern whether the country has online services for ordering records, printing applications, and information on fees.  Links to Civil Registration articles for each country.'''
 * Quick links to letter-writing guides for a wide variety of languages can be found at Category: Letter Writing Guides.

Reading Non-English Death Records
Genealogical Word Lists You do not have to be fluent in a foreign language in order to successfully read death records. Only a limited vocabulary is used in these records. "Genealogical Word Lists", online lessons, and other helps are available to help you become proficient in reading these records. These are listed on each country main page under "Research Tools".
 * Also, links to all the Word Lists available are found at Word List.