New York Census Records

A census is an official enumeration of the population in a particular area. In addition to counting the inhabitants of an area, the census generally collects other vital information, such as names, ages, citizenship status, and ethnic background. Each census can prove to be invaluable in painting a portrait of a family at a particular place and time. For genealogists, census records have become the go-to tool when conducting research in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In theory, census enumerate every person in every household, in ever district, in every town, in the state or country the census was taken in. In reality, they did miss people, for various reasons, and quite often misspelled names. To add further confusion, most census indices have been extracted by foreigners not familiar with the handwriting of the enumerator, or the local names. This requires the researcher to be diligent in searching for an individual, and don’t always take a “no results” in a search as the definitive word.

1790 New York Census

1800 New York Census

1810 New York Census

1820 New York Census

1830 New York Census

1840 New York Census

1850 New York Census

1860 New York Census

1870 New York Census

1880 New York Census

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1890 New York Census

1900 New York Census

1910 New York Census

1920 New York Census

1930 New York Census

1940 New York Census