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INTRODUCTION TO IOWA'S CENSUS
IOWA'S TERRITORIAL AND STATE CENSUS YEARS
WHERE TO FIND THE FEDERAL CENSUS MICROFILMS
WHERE TO FIND THE STATE CENSUS MICROFILMS
RESEARCH/DATA TRANSCRIPTION TOOLS
IOWA FEDERAL CENSUS PROJECT
IOWA STATE CENSUS PROJECT
OTHER HELPFUL WEBSITES
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Iowa's Federal Population Census Schedules
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1840
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Indexed by head of household.
Contains: head of household by name, free white males by age groups, free white females by age groups, number of slaves, number of male & female slaves by age groups, number of foreigners (meaning not naturalized citizens), number of deaf, dumb, blind by categories, whether receiving federal military pension, whether attending school
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1850
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Beginning with the 1850 census the name of each person in the household was recorded. Indexed by head of household.
Contains: all household members by name, sex, color, birthplace, occupation, value of real estate, whether married within the year, deaf/dumb/blind, insane, whether a pauper, whether a convict, whether able to read/write, whether attended school during last year. Agricultural, Industrial, Social, and Mortality
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1860
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Contains: all household members by name, sex, color, birthplace, occupation, value of real estate, value of personal property, whether married within the year, deaf/dumb/blind/insane, whether a pauper,
whether a convict, whether able to read/write, whether attended school during last year. Agricultural, Industrial, Social, and Mortality.
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1870
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Contains: all household members by name, month of birth if born during last year, sex, color, birthplace, occupation, value of real estate, value of personal property, whether married within the year, month of marriage if married during last year, deaf/dumb/blind/insane, whether able to read/write, whether attended school during last year, whether father or mother of foreign birth. Agricultural, Industrial, Social, and Mortality. |
1880
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The 1880 Census is the first year a Soundex (on microfilm) is available, but the soundex is a partial index as it is limited to households which included children ten years of age and younger.
Two very important items of information for genealogical research were added: the relationship of each person to the head of the household and the birthplace of the father and the mother for each individual.
Contains: street name & house number, relationship to head of family, month of birth if born during last year, sex, color, birthplace, occupation, marital status, whether married during last year, whether disabled/whether crippled, maimed or deformed, time unemployed during census year, deaf/dumb/blind/insane, whether attended school during last year, birthplaces of father and mother, whether father or mother of foreign birth. Agricultural, Industrial, Social, and Mortality. |
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1900
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The 1900 Soundex (on microfilm) includes all households and has separate listings for persons who were not members of the immediate family or who had a different surname. Iowa soundex available for 1900.
Contains: all household members by name, street name & house number, relationship to head of family, month of birth if born during last year, sex, color, birthplace, occupation, whether naturalized and when, number of years in US, whether home/property mortagaged, marital status, time unemployed during census year, whether able to speak English, whether able to read, write, whether attended school during last year birthplaces of father and mother, whether father or mother of foreign birth, number of living children if a woman, whether soldier/sailor/marine duing Civil War (Union or Confederate) or widow, number of years in present marriage, number of children born. |
1910
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No Iowa soundex available. Iowa Street indexes and ED Maps for the city of Des Moines only.
Contains: all household members by name, street name & house number, relationship to head of family, sex, color, birthplace, occupation, whether naturalized and when, number of years in US, whether home/property mortagaged, marital status, time unemployed during census year, whether deaf/dumb/blind/insane, whether able to speak English, whether able to read/write, whether attended school during last year, birthplaces of father and mother, whether father or mother of foreign birth, number of living children if a woman, whether soldier/sailor/marine duing Civil War (Union of Confederate) or widow, number of years in present marriage, number of children born, mother tongue.
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1920
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Indexing is the same as for 1910. Iowa soundex available for 1920. The 1920 Soundex (on microfilm) includes all households and has separate listings for persons who were not members of the immediate family or who had a different surname.
The format and information in the 1920 census schedules [T625] closely resembles that of the 1910 census. Contains: all household members by name, street name & house number, relationship to head of family, sex, color, birthplace, occupation (3 categories), whether naturalized and when, number of years in US, whether home/property mortagaged, marital status, whether deaf/dumb/blind/insane, whether able to speak English, whether able to read/write, whether attended school during last year, birthplaces of father and mother, whether father or mother of foreign birth, number of children born, mother tongue, mother tongue of father, mother tongue of mother, year of naturalization. |
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