Genealogy
Genealogy Classes
2010 Training for Family History
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The
Basics of Using Federal Census Records (more)
You may have an easy time in your census research and easily locate your ancestors, or you may have to examine every line in an entire county's census schedules. Use the census indexes and the enumeration district records to help locate your ancestors, and remember to also investigate alternate spellings. An organized approach, proceeding through each of the censuses through an ancestor's entire lifeline, may provide the details you need.
If you cannot print a copy of the census page, be prepared to transcribe the information. You may want to use the printable census forms make copies of them, and carefully transcribe the information—exactly as it is written on the census form, spelling errors and all—onto one of the forms.