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Online North Dakota indexes and images
| Online Federal and State Population Schedules of North Dakota | |||||||||||
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Federal population schedules
Microfilm images
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| 1930 | 1900 and Soundex | 1860 |
| 1920 and Soundex | 1880 and Soundex |
| 1940 N/A | 1910 T624 | 1870 M593 | |
| 1930 T626 | 1900 T623 and Soundex T1064 | 1860 M653 | |
| 1920 T625 and Soundex M1580 | 1880 T9 and Soundex T740 | ||
Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the population schedules of North Dakota, click here
Federal non-population schedules
Online indexes and images
| Online Federal Non-Population Schedules for North Dakota | ||||||||||
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| 1890 | Veterans | Link | - | - | - | Link | Link | Link | ||
| 1885 | Mortality | - | - | - | - | Link | Link | Link | ||
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| 1850 | Mortality[12] | Link | - | - | - | Link | Link | Link | ||
Microfilm images
Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of North Dakota, click here.
State and territorial censuses
North Dakota often took censuses in the years between the federal censuses, the dates are listed below. State census records may have columns that were different or more unusual than those found on federal censuses. The responses and years of coverage may give additional information on the family.
| North Dakota (Dakota Territory 1860-1900) state, territorial, or colonial censuses[13][14] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1857 | Exists as part of a special federal census of Minnesota Territory[15] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Existing and lost censuses
For a list of available and missing North Dakota censuses, click here.
Why use a census?
A well-indexed census is one of the easiest ways to locate where an ancestor's family lived and when they lived there. You can also use censuses to follow the changes in a family over time, and identify neighbors. These and other clues provided by censuses are important because they help find additional kinds of records about the family.
More about censuses
Click here for additional details about how to use censuses, such as:
Sources and footnotes
- ↑ FamilySearch, a free online service of the Family History Library, including free images of many federal censuses, including an index of the 1880 federal census of the United States; connected with 1880 census images provided by Ancestry.com, a subscription site.
- ↑ Internet Archive, a free online service includes free images of most of the federal censuses.
- ↑ HeritageQuest has arranged with many subscribing public libraries in the United States to allow users free access on home computers by means of their personal library card numbers. HeritageQuest provides images of all surviving 1790 to 1930 federal censuses, and indexes to many but not all of them.
- ↑ Fold3, formerly known as Footnote.com, a subscription site partnering with the National Archives and includes some federal censuses. Free access is available at many public libraries.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Ancestry.com, a subscription site that provides online indexes and images to all surviving federal and many state census records, among other sources. They have three online editions: (1) an FHL edition free only at the Family History Library and a few Family History Centers, (2) a slightly smaller Library edition free only at some public libraries, and (3) a Home edition subscription service for individuals.
- ↑ Archives.com, a subscription site that provides online indexes and images to all surviving federal census records, among other sources.
- ↑ FamilyLink.com, a subscription site that provides online images (and some indexes) to all surviving federal and many state census records, among other sources.
- ↑ In 1860 people living in what is now North Dakota were enumerated in the "unorganized" part of the Dakota Territory census population schedules along with people in what is now South Dakota. Those schedules included Fort Clark, Fort Union, Fort William, and Pembina, all in what is now North Dakota. In 1860 land west of the Missouri River technically was part of Nebraska Terrritory, but no locales on the Nebraska Territory census can be identified definitely as being in present-day North Dakota.
- ↑ In 1857 the white residents in what is now North Dakota lived in what was then Pembina County, Minnesota Territory.
- ↑ In 1850 the only white residents in what is now North Dakota lived in what was then Pembina County, Minnesota Territory.
- ↑ Theoretically, in 1840 the white residents in what is now Pembina, North Dakota lived in what was then Clayton County, Iowa Territory. The 1840 population schedules of Clayton County do not seem to list residents of remote Pembina, 400 miles from present-day Clayton County.
- ↑ For deceased former residents in what is now North Dakota see the Pembina County, Minnesota Territory 1850 census mortality schedules.
- ↑ Ann S. Lainhart, State Census Records (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992), 90.
- ↑ Henry J. Dubester, State Censuses: An Annotated Bibliography of Censuses of Population Taken After the Year 1790 by States and Territories of the United States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948), 51-52, 71.
- ↑ In 1857 the white residents in what is now Pembina, North Dakota were enumerated as part of a special federal census in what was then Pembina County, Minnesota Territory. See William Thorndale, and William Dollarhide, Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1987), pages 172, and 259.
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