Census records

Some census records are digitized:

• 1810 Census of Wayne County
• 1815 Census of Wayne County
• 1819 Census of Wayne County
• 1823 Census of Wayne County

Other census records available in our department include:

• Abstracts of 1860 Census for Wayne County, OH: including Baughman, Chippewa, and Milton Townships
• Agricultural Schedules for Wayne County, OH 1850, 1870
• Censuses (1820-1930) on microfilm for Wayne County and many of the surrounding counties such as:
  • Ashland
  • Holmes
  • Medina
  • Richland
  • Stark
  • Summit
• Early censuses on microfilm for selected counties of Pennsylvania.
• Enumeration District Descriptions 1830-1890, 1910-1930
• Ohio indexes for 1820-1880 censuses
• Ohio Mortality Schedules 1850, 1860, 1880
• Pennsylvania Mortality Schedules 1850, 1860, 1870
• Pennsylvania indexes for 1790-1810
• Wayne County, Ohio Census Indexes for 1820-1920

External links

• Census Aids
  Search site dedicated to simplifying genealogical searches. Contains databases and programs that facilitate doing genealogical research.
• Fate of the 1890 Federal Census
  Of the decennial population census schedules, perhaps none might have been more critical to studies of immigration, industrialization, westward migration, and characteristics of the general population than the Eleventh Census of the United States, taken in June 1890. United States residents completed millions of detailed questionnaires, yet only a fragment of the general population schedules and an incomplete set of special schedules enumerating Union veterans and widows are available today. Reference sources routinely dismiss the 1890 census records as "destroyed by fire" in 1921. Examination of the records of the Bureau of Census and other federal agencies, however, reveals a far more complex tale. This is a genuine tragedy of records--played out before Congress fully established a National Archives--and eternally anguishing to researchers.
• Soundex Converter
  The Soundex system is the means established by the National Archives to index the U.S. censuses (beginning with 1880). It codes together surnames of the same and similar sounds but of variant spellings. Soundexes are arranged by state, Soundex code of the surname, and given name.
• US Census Bureau
  The Census Bureau Web Site provides on-line access to census data, publications, and products.