5.5 Other Types of Schedules
Census, or population schedules, are not the only type of schedules. Schedules exist for agriculture, mortality, social statistics, and manufacturing. There can also be business schedules and information for certain groups of people as are found in Native American schedules and slave schedules. Additionally, jurisdictions, like cities, counties, states, territories, provinces, and others, may conduct a census separate from those done at the national level. To identify available schedules for the place of research, search for the place in the FamilySearch Wiki and then click on “census.” There are tables outlining the population and non-population schedules that apply to the location, but not every location has a census section.
Census Substitutes
Completing a full census survey of all available population schedules for the years the research family members were living gives a good overview of the person’s life and points the researcher to other records. When a census record cannot be found, note this in the research log, along with the details of a comprehensive search for the document. Sometimes smaller jurisdictions take censuses—which in the U.S. means at the state, county, or city level—but in another country may be a province or borough. Use the FamilySearch Wiki page for the location to determine if other government census records are available beyond a federal census. Later in the project, census substitutes can be used to account for the research subject, compensating for the missing census record.
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