Colorado Population Schedule Indexes: Fiche, Film, or Book

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Nationwide

 * Ronald Vern Jackson, A.I.S. U.S. Census Indexes (on Microfiche) (Bountiful, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1984). Also in Ancestry.com online.


 * Search 1 1607-1819 Entire United States
 * Search 2 1820-1829 Entire United States
 * Search 3 1830-1839 Entire United States
 * Search 4 1840-1849 Entire United States
 * Search 5 1850-1860 Southern States
 * Search 6 1850 New England and northern states
 * Search 7 1850-1906 Midwestern and western states
 * Search 7a 1850-1906 Entire United States (searches 5, 6, and 7 combined)
 * Search 8 U.S. Mortality schedules


 * For a resource guide to using them, see Accelerated Indexing Systems U.S. Census Indexes (on Microfiche).

1920

 * Soundex index available

1910

 * Use the Denver Street Index (Family History Library fiche 6331481) to help locate individuals in the census.

1900

 * Soundex index available

1885

 * The federal government took a census of Colorado. See Family History Library Book 978.852 X2c

1880

 * partial Soundex index exists

1860

 * Colorado Historical Society has a card index to the 1860 census. Separate indexes for the Nebraska and New Mexico portions are included in the 1860 indexes for those territories. An index to Arapahoe County, Kansas (where most of Colorado's 1860 population lived) is found in search 7A on the AIS census index on microfiche. An 1870 Colorado Territory census and index are also at the Family History Library.

An 1860 federal territorial census was taken in the four territories from which Colorado was created.

Northeastern Section-- enumerated with Nebraska 1860 census schedules designated "unorganized territory."

Central Eastern section-- enumerated with Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory.

Southeast section-- enumerated in parts of Taos and Mora Counties of New Mexico Territory.Since half of the state of Colorado, included in the Utah Territory was not settled, no census was taken in that area.