Washington DC Census Records Online includes Federal and State censuses. Census records (especially when indexed) are one of the easiest ways to find family members and track individuals over their lifetime.

US Census Records

In the United States, federal censuses are taken every 10 years and these records are made public 72 after the census is taken. US Censuses began in 1790 and the most recent census available is the 1950 census. Most of the 1890 census was destroyed by fire, but parts remain and you can use other records as census substitutes.

HINT: You can look at federal (1870-1920) census records to see if your ancestor was naturalized and if they were, visit Massachusetts Naturalization Records online.

HINT: Between 1790 and 1840, only the head of household is named in the census.

HINT: Between 1850 and present, all people living in a household are named in the census.

HINT: Between 1850 and 1880 there are census mortality schedules listing who died in the year before the census was taken.

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US level Census Records

US – United States Census, 1800, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census, 1820, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census, 1830, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census, 1840, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census, 1850, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census, 1860, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860, index & image, at FS

US – United States Census, 1870, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census, 1880, index & image, at FS

US – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census, 1890, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images, at FS

US – United States Enumeration District Maps for the Twelfth through the Sixteenth US Censuses, 1900-1940, images, at FS

US – United States Census, 1900, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census, 1910, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census, 1920, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census, 1930, index & images, at FS

US – United States Census of Merchant Seamen, 1930, index, at FS

US – United States Census, 1940, index & images, at FS

Washington DC Census Records online

DC – Washington, Native American, Census Records, 1880-1952, index & images, at FS

Georgetown – Census – 1850 – Nonpopulation Census Schedules for the District of Columbia, 1850-1870 : Agriculture, Industry, Mortality, and Social Statistics, and Nonpopulation Census Schedules for Worcester County, Maryland, 1850, Agriculture, at FS