Links to the Census on The Net

Ever wish you could do all your genealogy research in your pajamas? It's still more of a dream than a reality, but there are quite a few resources we "mouse potatoes" can find online. Many more sites have parts of the census online than had it a year or so ago. This site contains the entire 1860 census for Wayne County, North Carolina with index. Other sites with the census online are noted below.

North Carolina Census Links and GenWeb Sites

These sites (like all genealogy sites) are constantly being updated. (This list last updated 3/10/99.)

• Genealogy Helplist North Carolina -- A list of census lookups available for North Carolina.
• North Carolina USGenWeb Genealogy -- Lists all the various volunteers working throughout the state, and the hard-to-find resources they have posted online (census, mortality records, marriage and death records, etc.)
• Alamance County-- Includes Mortality Schedules for 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880.
• Albemarle County (1663-1670) -- Historical and research data on this county, which was abolished in 1739.
• Alexander County-- Standard GenWeb site.
• Alleghany County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Anson County -- Includes index of wills, plus offline census lookups (one name per request) will be performed by volunteers.
• Archdale (1705-1712) see Craven
• Ashe County-- Standard GenWeb site.
• Avery County-- Includes ability to search site.
• Bath County (1696-1705) -- Historic data, including historic photographs, for this county, which was abolished in 1739.
• Beaufort County -- Includes offline look-ups for 1850 census and Marriages 1847-1909, plus an antique postcard collection featuring Bellhaven, NC.
• Bertie County -- Includes information about major features of census in Bertie County.
• Bladen County-- Offers online the 1793 Bladen County Tax List, 1781 Tax Exemption List, and 1790 census.
• Brunswick County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Buncombe County -- Extensive list of offline look-ups seems to have disappeared.
• Burke County -- Has some excellent lookups including 1850 census.
• Bute County (1764-1779) -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Cabarrus County -- Includes Mortality Schedules for 1850 and 1860.
• Caldwell County -- Includes lookups for 1850 1860, 1870, 1880 and 1900 Census.
• Camden County -- Includes lookups of 1850 census 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900 and 1920 census and of abstracts of 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910 census.
• Carteret County -- Includes 1850 Mortality Schedule.
• Caswell County -- Has a number of wills, deeds, marriages in archives.
• Catawba County -- Lookups include 1850-1880 censuses.
• Chatham County-- Standard GenWeb site
• Cherokee County -- Includes look-ups for 1840 and 1850 census.
• Cherokee Reservation -- "Qualla Boundary," Townships: Big Cove, Birdtown, Painttown, Wolfton and Yellow Hill and tracts in Graham County and Cherokee County. Includes extensive list, with descriptions, of Cherokee rolls (a type of census), which are available for purchase in book form (not available online).
• Chowan County -- Lookups include 1790 Chowan County Census (Rural) 1790 Chowan County Census (Rural and Town of Edenton) and 1800 Chowan County Census.
• Clay County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Cleveland County -- Includes 1850 census, and has lookups for 1860, 1870 and 1880 census.
• Columbus County -- Includes  1810, 1820, 1860 and 1870 Columbus County Census plus Chadbourn's Sunny South Colonists.
• Craven County -- Has lookups for 1784-1787 NC state census.
• Cumberland County -- Contains 1790 and 1820 censuses for Cumberland Co. and Fayetteville Town
• Currituck County -- Includes lookups for 1850 and 1860 census.
• Dare County -- Includes lookups for 1820 Dare County census, 1850 Tyrell County Census, and 1900 and 1910 Hyde County census.
• Davidson County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Davie County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Dobbs County (1758-1791) -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Duplin County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Durham County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Edgecombe County -- Archives contain 1790 census.
• Forsyth County -- Includes 1759 Rowan County Tax List and 1786 Surry County (later part of Forsyth County) Taxables.
• Franklin County -- Contains 1790 census.
• Gaston County -- New page, likely to expand.
• Gates County -- Resources include 1786 Gates County census.
• Glasgow County (1791-1799) -- Has been combined with Greene County site.
• Graham County -- Has lookups for 1880 Graham County census.
• Granville County -- Includes lookups for 1755 Tax List.
• Greene County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Guilford County -- Includes lookups for 1790-1800-1810 Census, Guilford County.
• Halifax County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Harnett County -- Standard GenWeb site
• Haywood County -- Includes lookups on the 1810-1850 Haywood County censuses and some useful Cherokee links.
• Henderson County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Hertford County -- Appears to be a new site.
• Hoke County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Hyde County -- Extensive census and tax lists online and in lookups.
• Iredell County -- Standard GenWeb site planning to update soon.
• Jackson County -- Lists over 400 Soldiers and Troop Listings for Jackson County, plus many lookups.
• Johnston County -- Includes a chart of the major features of each census for Johnston County, but none online.  An abstract of the 1860 federal census can be purchased here.
• Jones County -- Resources include an index of estate records.
• Lee County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Lenoir County -- Contains 1800, 1810 and 1820 Census, Lenoir Co., NC plus grantor/grantee index of Dobbs, Johnston & Lenoir Counties.
• Lincoln County -- Includes land grant information.
• Macon County -- Contains links to 1830 and 1840 Macon County census.
• Madison County -- (This county page is up for adoption.) Standard GenWeb site.
• Martin County -- Includes 1790 census and a number of military lists.
• McDowell County -- This site appears to be new.
• Mecklenburg County -- Includes 1790 census and some excellent lookups, including "Trail of Tears" military regiment.
• Mitchell County -- (This county page is up for adoption.) Standard GenWeb page.
• Montgomery County -- Includes 1790 and 1810 census, with links to 1850 and 1860 census.
• Moore County -- This site offers quite a few lookup services and extensive links including some Native American ones.
• Nash County -- Includes 1790 census and list of major features of Nash County censuses.
• New Hanover County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Northampton County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Onslow County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Orange County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Pamlico County -- Includes Jamestown 1624 census.
• Pasquotank County -- Includes 1790 census.
• Pender County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Perquimans County -- Contains 1702 and 1754 Tax Lists.
• Person County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Pitt County -- Includes many census lookups, plus lookups in African-American resources for Pitt County.
• Polk County -- Includes many cemetery records.
• Qualla Boundary -- same as Cherokee Reservation above.
• Randolph County -- Lots of lookups, plus is planning to post 1850 census.
• Richmond County -- Includes lookups for 1800 census. (You may have to click your Stop button to get the page to load.)
• Robeson County -- Includes lookups for 1900 - Federal Census Information of Indians of Robeson County.
• Rockingham County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Rowan County -- Contains 1790 census.
• Rutherford County -- Contains 1790-1850 censuses with many other resources.
• Sampson County -- Includes lookups for 1850-1870 censuses.
• Scotland County -- Standard GenWeb page. (You may have to click your Stop button to get the page to load.)
• Stanly County -- Offers offline lookups for census from 1800-1880.
• Stokes County -- Includes 1790 census online, plus 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830 and 1840 census records and list of Revolutionary War Pension applications from Stokes and Surry Counties.
• Surry County -- Standard GenWeb page.
• Swain County -- Includes African-American and Native American resources.
• Transylvania County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Tryon County (1768-1779) -- Includes neat animated map of migration in America.
• Tyrrell County-- Awesome genealogy site offering indexed census online for 1786, 1790, 1800, 1840, 1850 and 1860, plus Death Index 1913-1985, Marriage Bonds 1739-1866, Guardian Bonds 1739-1829, and offline look-ups by volunteers for a huge variety of other sources.
• Union County -- No census but lots of lookups.
• Vance County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Wake County -- Includes a list of the various censuses of Wake County and 1840 online list of names/ages of Revolutionary War pensioners from Wake County.
• Warren County-- Includes well-organized list of researchers including African-American research from days of slavery through 1958.
• Washington County -- Contains 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830 and 1850 census. See also Tyrrell County.
• Watauga County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Wayne County -- This friendly site includes 1790 census and lookups for 1820 census, plus many other resources.
• Wayne County -- 1860 census indexed and online here at Dot's Place.
• Wilkes County -- Standard GenWeb site.
• Wilson County --Standard GenWeb site. (You may have to click the stop button to get this site to display.)
• Yadkin County -- Includes 1790 Surry County census (Yadkin was part of Surry), 1786 Taxables List and 1759 Rowan County Tax List (Yadkin was part of Rowan).
• Yancey County -- Includes 1835 Pension Roll (abstracted), Marriages 1850-1899, Indian Removal - NC Volunteer Regiment, War of 1812 Muster Rolls, and Bastard Bonds - 1875-1879

Other North Carolina Sites

• Afrigeneas-- Genealogical research and resources, particularly focusing on African ancestry. Includes a variety of resources, links to many other related sites. Notable for North Carolina is a list of names of Black craftsmen in North Carolina in the 1800's.
• Cherokee Genealogy-- Includes a guide to discovering your Cherokee ancestors, as well as historic Cherokee photographs.
• Colonial History in Virginia and North Carolina, a genealogical history site
• Documenting the American South-- The Southern experience in 19th century America, including diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and first-person narratives, 1860-1920 (currently under development).

General Census Sources

• African-American Census Schedules Online -- Slave schedules and other census records for Americans of African descent from certain counties of Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
• Be sure to check out www.census-online.com for other censuses available online.
• U.S. GenWeb Federal Census Project -- Volunteers are needed for many counties -- sign up at this site.

New York State Censuses

• 1810 Federal Census Listings for Chautauqua and Pomfret Townships, Chautauqua Co., NY- Complete census listings for two towns, in comma-delimited format, compiled by Donna Mills.
• US GenWeb New York Census Index -- Keep track of which parts of NY census transcription are completed, being worked on, or up for grabs. Volunteer for a county and a year!

New York State Genealogy

• Chautauqua County, NY Gen-Web Site

Surnames in my personal family research

Note that some of these names appear only once.  AMSDEN, ANDERSON, ANSON, BAKER, BALDWIN, BARHYDT/BARHITE, BEAMON, BLANCHARD, BOTSFORD, CHAMBERLIN, CORY, COSTIGAN, DAVENPORT, DORMAN, EDWARDS, ESSEN, FARR, FINK, FREDERICK, GIFFORD, HAGE, JACKSON, JOHNSON, KELLEHER, LESURE/LESEUER, LYNCH, MARVEL, MCCOY, MCMILLEN, MORRIS, OSGOOD, PALMER, PRATT, RICH, RUSSELL, SAGER, SEAVER, SEAY, SHAW, SHERMAN, SMITH, SPAULDING, STEVENS, STODDARD, SVENSON/SWENSON, VOUGHT, WALKER, WHARF, WILLIAMSON, WOOD, YOUNG.

Go to list of first and last names in my family

Queries

Unfortunately, I don't have time to offer advice on researching your family history, but I can answer questions about this site.  You are also welcome to leave Wayne County queries in the guest book.  If you have general questions about getting started, excellent advice can be found at Cyndi's List.