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1790 Census of Population and Housing

From the US Census Bureau. Printed transcriptions in .pdf or .zip format showing Heads of Household for the following states: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia.

1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses - Catalog of NARA Microfilm

From the National Archives & Records Administration.

1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses Catalog of NARA Microfilm - Online Version

From the National Archives & Records Administration.

Ancestry.com - 1790 United States Federal Census $

Includes research tips and information about the questions asked in each census. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Ancestry.com Wiki - 1790 U.S. Census

This article originally appeared in "Census Records" by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Matthew Wright in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy. This wiki is a free service of Ancestry.com.

Clues in Census Records, 1790-1840

From the National Archives & Records Administration.

FamilySearch - FHL Catalog - United States - Census - 1790

FamilySearch - United States Census, 1790 ^FREE

Name index to the population schedules listing the inhabitants of the United States in 1790. This was the first national census conducted in the United States. No schedules are known to exist for Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia. Index provided by Ancestry.com.

FamilySearch Wiki - United States Census 1790

Findmypast - 1790 U.S. Federal Population Census $

GenealogyMagazine.com - American Surnames in 1790

It is important to remember that a comparatively small part of the total number of surnames in the United States in 1790 includes practically the entire white population. Eleven thousand nine hundred and thirty-four names represent but one-half of one percent of the white population, hence the 99.5 percent were represented by 15,403 surnames.

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MyHeritage - 1790 United States Federal Census $

MyHeritage has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. The United States Census of 1790 was the first census conducted in the United States. Conducted on August 2, 1790, it recorded the population of the United States to be 3,929,214.

United States Census Bureau - Decennial Census by Decades - 1790

US Census Headings 1790-1860 ^FREE

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