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Research in Missouri Census Records
Statewide Records that exist for Missouri are 1800 - 1810 - (missing), 1820 (missing), 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890 (fragment, see below), 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 and 1940. There are Industry and Agriculture Schedules 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Slave Schedules exist for 1850 & 1860. The Mortality Schedules for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Missouri took territorial censuses during in 1814, 1817, and 1819. There are listings of heads of families of New Madrid for 1797 and 1803. Heads of families were enumerated for St. Charles in 1817 and 1819 only.
Missing Censuses
- 1810 & 1820: lost for all districts.
- State Censuses: most of the individual schedules are lost.
Missouri Census Links
- Rootsweb Missouri Census Look Ups (rootsweb.ancestry.com)
- Missouri Census Project (usgenweb.org)
- Missouri Census QuickFacts (census.gov)
- Links to Online Missouri Census Records (census-online.com)
- Missouri Mortality Records, 1850 and 1860 (search.ancestry.com)
- Missouri State Census Collection, 1844-1881 (search.ancestry.com)
- Missouri Census, 1830-70 (search.ancestry.com)
- Missouri Census Extraction Forms (ancestry.com)
- U.S. Federal Census Guides
- United States Federal Census for Missouri (search.ancestry.com)
- 1860 Missouri Federal Census (fold3.com) Browse the 1860 US census by state, county, and civil division. This particular census is especially helpful in researching the Civil War era and the soldiers who fought in the imminent conflict.
- 1930 Missouri Federal Census (fold3.com) The 1930 census schedules are arranged by state or territory and then by county. All 48 states are included, plus the territories of Alaska and Hawaii, as well as the District of Columbia and U.S. possessions like Puerto Rico.
- 1860 Federal Slave Schedule (search.ancestry.com)
- Census 2000 Data for the State of Missouri (census.gov)
- Overview of the U.S. Census (ancestry.co.uk) from The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy.
- Missouri Census Books (amazon.com)
