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[ FREE CENSUS EXTRACTION FORMS ] [ Mississippi Census, 1805-90]
Federal Population Schedules that exist for Mississippi are 1820, 1830 (Partial), 1840, 1850, 1860 (Partial), 1870, 1880, 1890 (fragment, see below), 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930. In
1817 Mississippi became the twentieth state to enter the union;
therefore, the first federal population census available is
that of 1820.
Variations of this census appear in three printed forms, none
of which include slave or miscellaneous information.
Enumerations for Pike County are missing in 1830, but the Gillis
index used extant tax records to supplement their index. Transcriptions
are subject to error; use these reprints simply as a guide to
the original records.
A significant addition to the 1840 census supplies the names
and ages of pensioners. Schedules are missing for Hancock, Sunflower,
and Washington counties in 1860.
By 1870, with slavery abolished, all blacks, natives, and Chinese
were included, along with information regarding citizenship.
With the destruction of the 1890 population schedules, only
the schedules enumerating Union veterans are available for Mississippi. There are free downloadable and printable Census forms to help with your research. These include U.S. Census Extraction Forms and U.K. Census Extraction Forms
An
early census of the Natchez District, taken in 1792 from the
Spanish Provincial records. Other censuses from the Spanish
Colonial period (1784, 1787, 1788, and 1794) can be found in
the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba (The Cuban Papers) located at
the General Archives of the Indies in Seville, Spain.
Territorial census reports were authorized by the legislature
of Mississippi Territory at different intervals from 1798 until
1817. The original records are housed at the Mississippi Department
of Archives and History. These census records are available
for research purposes at the Mississippi Department of Archives
and History.
One other special census known as the “Armstrong
Roll of 1831" was taken following the signing of the Choctaw
“Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek,” the last major land
concession made by the native Americans to the Europeans. Some
of the information on this roll includes names of the Choctaw
tribal members, whites who married Choctaw natives, and slaves.
An indirect source giving census information is the Educable
Children Records, a census of school age children taken by county.
Although the Mississippi Department
of Archives and History has some of these records, many are still located at each county
superintendent of education's office. These records are arranged
at the archives by county with no index available.
There are many other Federal Schedules to look at when researching your family tree in the state of Mississippi. There are Industry and Agriculture Schedules availible for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Slave Schedules exist for 1850 & 1860. The Mortality Schedules for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880.
Genealogy Atlas has images of old American atlases during the years 1795, 1814, 1822, 1823, 1836, 1838, 1845, 1856, 1866, 1879 and 1897 for Alabama and other states.
You can view rotating animated maps for Mississippi showing all the county boundaries for each census year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries. You can view a list of maps for other states at Census Maps
You can view rotating animated maps for Mississippi showing all the county boundary changes for each year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries . You can view a list of maps for other states and State Department of Transportation Maps at County Maps. The Alabama Department of Transportation has county maps the show the locations of churches, cemeteries, roads, ect... free for viewing or download here
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