FamilySearch has a had the census available on it’s website in searchable form for quite a while. Finding those links however requires you to work through multiple web pages. The links below are meant to serve genealogists as a more direct entry into the census records from 1790 through 1950 (just bookmark this page). If you use Ancestry’s census search and images and have either found them difficult to read, or question the census listing, then you should search also the FamilySearch records, as I have personally found them to contain different indices in some instances as well as different images.
Don’t forget to utilize the free census forms if you are recording these census records by hand.
- 1790 Census
- 1800 Census
- 1810 Census
- 1820 Census
- 1830 Census
- 1840 Census
- 1850 Census
- 1860 Census
- 1870 Census
- 1880 Census
- 1890 Census
- 1900 Census
- 1910 Census
- 1920 Census
- 1930 Census
- 1940 Census
- 1950 Census
The new release of the 1950 census is represented only by images on FamilySearch. The actual index is hosted by NARA at the link below. A genealogical community wide project is currently indexing the census.
