1880 Census Results
The 1880 Census is available online for free and does not require a subscription to access the electronic index which makes it much quicker than ever to locate an invidual in the census schedules. You will be required to register with name and email addres only (no credit card, etc.), but once registered you will have full access to search 1880 census records for the entire United States. You can only view corresponding images if you are an Ancestry subscriber.
Sample 1880 Census Results for Lizzie Borden
The graphic below shows results as they are displayed after submitting a search.
Image below is a reduced size, the results you see when submitting a live search are much larger. Summary results show the following:
- Name of Individual as it was transcribed
- Name of Parent or Spouse
- Home in 1880 (City, County/Parish, State)
- Year of Birth (estimated by subtracting reported age from 1880)
- Place of Birth
- Relation of Person to Head of Household
Upon reviewing possible matching records, you can click on an individual name to link to a more detailed secondary view for that record. This summary transcription for the individual (as shown below) will provide age, gender, occupation, as well as the names of others within the same household.
1880 Census Schedule
The images below show partial examples of an 1880 census schedule for Dragoon (Osage County) Kansas and the family of Almond B. Strowger (beginning on line 8). These images have been reduced in size to fit this web page and also to provide for quick download, but those available via subscription to Ancestry have full image handling capabilities, including a magnifying glass to enlarge and the ability to save images.
Almond B. Strowger
We noted the importance of the 1880 census, especially the fact that this enumeration was the first to add a question designed to show the relationship between the head of household and others living within that household. We can see in the image below the importance of this additional question. Along with Almond B. Strowger (head of household), we have wife Elizabeth A., daughter Mary R., and step daughter Francis H. Willard. In prior census schedules, one would have to guess or assume the relationship between Francis and Almond, but this possibility for erroneous assumptions was removed in 1880.
Other Useful Sites for Genealogy
When conducting family history research, you will quickly realize that no one source can answer all your questions. This is true for original source material, physical archives, and those archives that have been digitized and transcribed for searching via the Internet.
While this site is focused on 1880 census and how to use Census Records, there are a host of other record types and Web sites that may be of interest.
Here are some of our favorites:
¤ 1930 Census - free details for researching 1930 census records
¤ US Census - an summary overview, 1790 - 1940
¤ Google Your Family Tree (Award Winning Book!)
¤ Genealogy 101 Tips for Beginners & Free forms
¤ NY Arrivals searcing NY passenger arrivals
¤ Vital Records tips at Genealogy Worldwide
¤ American Immigrant Wall of Honor at Ellis Island
¤ New York Passenger Lists, detail about the Port of NY
¤ SteveMorse.org (One Step Search Tools)
¤ Castle Garden
¤ APG (Assoc. of Professional Genealogists)
¤ LDS Church (the Mormon Church)
¤ Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (by Dick Eastman)