Abstract
UNITED STATES Federal Censuses have been taken decennially since 1790. The population schedules (and most agricultural, mortality, slave, social statistics, manufacturing schedules) are available on microfilm for each local political district for the nineteenth century. The merits of the manuscript census schedules as a source of data have only recently come to be appreciated by historians.' From 1830 to 1880, the census returns included at various decade intervals all or part of the following information: name, race or color, and sex of all members of a household, number of persons in each household, occupations of the adult members of each household, birthplace of household members, value of real estate and personal property owned by household members, and also information on where
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