Carol Stetser

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Differences in Various Censuses

November 27, 2020 The last couple of weeks I’ve written about census records, and today I want to continue on that theme by discussing the differences between the various United States Censuses. Although all of the censuses were meant to enumerate the population of the United States at a specific date, the censuses varied on …

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Finding Census Records for Ancestors

November 20, 2020 Last week I wrote about census records in general; this week I thought I would delve more specifically into finding someone in censuses.   As I wrote last week, finding ancestors in the various censuses can prove tricky. However, the vast majority of our ancestors really were enumerated all those years ago; …

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Revisiting Census Records

November 13, 2020 One of the first records that new genealogists turn to are census records and for good reason. American census records are the bedrock of genealogical research in the United States. In spite of that, many of us take census records for granted. After all, they’re easily found on almost any genealogical website …

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