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U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820
The United States decennial census has been conducted in years ending in "0" since 1790, as required by the U.S. Constitution. Article I, Section 2. In 2003, Ancestry.com “began reconstructing missing decennial (every 10 years) censuses for the early United States. Records in this database come from their efforts to both restore or re-create missing pieces of early censuses and actually create decennial “census” records for the years prior to 1790.
In order to construct the basic foundation of a list of potential heads of households, information was combined from many sources including, but not limited to: tax lists, legislative petitions, voter's lists, state and federal land records, military lists, etc.
Go to https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2234/ to view the article or begin your own search for early ancestors. Using this valuable resource you may be able to discover a missing family or relative.
This database contains reconstructions for the following states (though the reconstruction is not necessarily complete for any entire state):
Alabama
Arkansas
Delaware
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Entries may include name, residence, age, gender, color/race, occupation, birthplace, whether a slave, and source information.
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