Census

What is collected? An excellent aid regarding the U.S. Census information from 1790 through 1930 is offered by Genealogy.com

1830 Vermilion County Census

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All of the census records are available free online at Archive.org. You can read and even download the massive files.

Ancestry made the 1880 federal census available for free searching.

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