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1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses - Catalog of NARA Microfilm
From the National Archives & Records Administration.
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1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses Catalog of NARA Microfilm - Online Version
From the National Archives & Records Administration.
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Ancestry.com - 1840 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.
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Ancestry.com Wiki - 1840 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.
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Clues in Census Records, 1790-1840
From the National Archives & Records Administration.
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Microfilm of original records at the National Archives and Records Service, Washington District of Columbia. Contains brief statements identifying the geographic jurisdictions covered by each census taker, as well as his name and rate of pay.
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FamilySearch - United States Census, 1840 FREE
Name index to the population schedules listing the inhabitants of the United States in 1840. This was the sixth national census conducted since 1790. Index provided by Ancestry.com.
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MyHeritage - 1840 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 1840, conducted on June 1, 1840 determined the resident population of the United States to be 17,069,453 - an increase of 32.7 percent over the 1830 Census. The total population included 2,487,355 slaves.
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