United States Census 1870

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Additional information may be found on the United States Census Portal page.

1870 Census was taken beginning 1 June 1870, for five months. The following information was recorded by the census taker:

Asked if the father or mother of the individual were foreign born
Asked if born within the year and to give month
Asked if a male citizen over 21 years of age
Asked if a male citizen over 21 years of age, who has had their rights to vote denied other than because of the grounds of rebellion or crime
If a male individual is missing in this Census, it may serve as a clue that he may have been a casualty of the Civil War
The census was to list only those abiding in the house as of June 1 (those who died or children born after June 1 may not have been accounted for by the enumerator if they counted the household after that date)
It has been said that many people were missed in the South

1. Szucs, Loretto Dennis and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking. The Source: A Guide book to American Genealogy. 3rd ed. (Provo, UT: Ancestry, 2006.)

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