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Ancestry Academy - You Found What in the 1940 Census? ^FREE

In the 1940 census you expect to find your ancestors and their relationships to one another. But there is a wealth of other information on the image that will reveal to you what your ancestor

Ancestry Blog - 4 Census Hurdles and How to Jump Over Them

By Cari Taplin, CG

Ancestry.com Learning Center - Census Search Tips

Article by Juliana Smith.

Ancestry.com Learning Center - U.S. Census: Next Steps

Ancestry.com Wiki - Category:U.S. Census and Voter Lists

The wiki has many helpful, free articles to help with your research. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. This wiki is a free service of Ancestry.com.

Ancestry.com Wiki - The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy

The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy is a reference book published by Ancestry Publishing. The first edition was published in 1984 and was edited by Arlene H. Eakle and Johni Cerny. A revised edition, edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, was published in 1997. The current edition, the third, was published in 2006 and was also edited by Szucs and Luebking. In 2010, Ancestry.com digitized the content of The Source and made it available in wiki format as one of the foundational sources for the Ancestry.com Wiki. Each chapter has been broken into one or more series of articles. This wiki is a free service of Ancestry.com.

Beginner's Guide to U.S. Federal Censuses

A TNGenWeb Resource Project.

Census Records History of & How to Use Them

By Linda Haas Davenport.

Census Tick Marks and Codes--Revisited Yet Again!

By Elizabeth Shown Mills.

Census Worksheet

Clues in Census Records, 1790-1840

From the National Archives & Records Administration.

Clues in Census Records, 1850-1930

From the National Archives & Records Administration.

FamilySearch Wiki - Census Techniques and Strategies for Finding Elusive Ancestors

FamilySearch Wiki - United States Census

U.S. Census types, accuracy, analyzing the data, history, indexes, searching, Soundex, substitutes, non-population schedules, and state-by-state links to online indexes and images.

Federal Census Records

A Brief Guide.

Genealogy.com - Secrets of the Census

By Donna Przecha.

How to Use Pre-1850 Censuses for Genealogy Research | Ah ha! for Genealogists

Learn Genealogy - Enumeration Districts and Census Tracts

By Kimberly Powell

Legacy Family Tree Webinars - The Coded Census: Deciphering US Census $

By Thomas MacEntee. Legacy Family Tree Webinars are available with a monthly or annual webinar membership subscription.

Legacy QuickGuide: U.S. Federal Non-population Census Records $

The U.S. Federal Non-population Census Records Legacy QuickGuide