Many states conducted their own census enumeration. Often it fell about midway between the federal census enumeration. If available, the 1885 census would help with the missing information from the destoryed 1890 census. This site lists all of the states and what they have available. Some are available on-line.
Papers of the Federal Government; especially Iowa, Kansas, Missorui and Nebraska; immigration records, military records, pension and bounty-land warrant application; Federal population censuses.
Kathleen Brandt has done extensive work with military records. This blog summarizes the content of her talk to our society on 11/5/2011.
Eight months after the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the South, the Compensated Emancipation Act, signed in April 1862, freed the slaves in Washington, D.C. The remimbursement petitions showed the names, ages, histories and descriptions of 3,000 African Americans.
Here is another helpful site for using the 1940 census. Completely indexed.
There are many historical and genealogical societies throughout the state that work to document the history of a particular town or region. Often the resources held by local and regional institutions are not available anywhere else making these institutions a valuable source for research. The Directory of Local Historical Societies, Museums, and Genealogical Societies in Missouri provides researchers the opportunity to locate or search the online resources of these institutions.
This is a very helpful blog. It covers the leading “s”, abbreviations, numbers and other issues with the old handwriting.
