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What Happened to the 1890 US Census? • • FamilySearch Blog

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April 11, 2022 edited December 23, 2024 in Blog Comments EN

imageWhat Happened to the 1890 US Census? • • FamilySearch Blog

The 1890 US census was almost destroyed by fire. Here's what happened and what 1890 census substitute records are available.

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  • debralynnwoods1
    debralynnwoods1 ✭
    April 11, 2022

    What a tragic loss! All the extended information gathered as well, to be lost like that, after all that work. The 2020 census had so few questions, as a genealogist, I was very disappointed in the minimal information gathering it included.

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  • Tracee55
    Tracee55 ✭
    April 26, 2022

    You know that was all about taking the land and didn't want record of the Indians relatives cause you always want to screw us

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