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Indexes to some of the U.S. Censuses have been produced over the years, making the process of searching old census records much easier. Some indexes of census records have been produced by amateur volunteer genealogists. Due to the sheer volume of information, and the manual methodologies involved, the indexing used to be limited to the head-of-household. These indexes were published in bound volumes and are often available in regional libraries along with microfilm rolls that can be researched.
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Census data are now employed in a wide variety of settings in addition to the original use for legislative apportionment. The data are used by members of Congress, legislators, and policymakers to plan and evaluate programs and to allocate funds to other units of government; by researchers and marketers to construct sampling frames and to obtain authoritative information on Americans; by lobbyists and advocates for interest groups to advance the goals of their constituents; and by the courts and agencies enforcing civil rights laws to measure compliance.
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AllCensusRecords.com is an ongoing Census Records Online Project. Keep watching these pages for USA Census information for Alaska Census Records, Alabama Census Records, Arizona Census Records, Arkansas Census Records, California Census Records, Colorado Census Records, Connecticut Census Records, Delaware Census Records, District of Columbia Census Records, Florida Census Records, Georgia Census Records, Hawaii Census Records, Idaho Census Records, Illinois Census Records, Indiana Census Records, Iowa Census Records, Kansas Census Records, Kentucky Census Records, Lousiana Census Records, Maine Census Records, Maryland Census Records, Massachusetts Census Records, Michigan Census Records, Minnesota Census Records, Mississippi Census Records, Missouri Census Records, Montana Census Records, Nebraska Census Records, Nevada Census Records, New Hampshire Census Records, New Jersey Census Records, New Mexico Census Records, New York Census Records, North Carolina Census Records, North Dakota Census Records, Ohio Census Records, Oklahoma Census Records, Oregon Census Records, Pennsylvania Census Records, Rhode Island Census Records, South Carolina Census Records, South Dakota Census Records, Tennessee Census Records, Texas Census Records, Utah Census Records, Vermont Census Records, Virginia Census Records, Washington Census Records, West Virginia Census Records, Wisconsin Census Records, Wyoming Census Records, and in Canada - Alberta Census Records, British Columbia Census Records, Manitoba Census Records, Manitoba Census Records, New Brunswick Census Records, New France (Quebec) Census Records, Newfoundland Census Records, Nova Scotia Census Records, Ontario Census Records, Prince Edward Island Census Records, Quebec Census Records, Saskatchewan Census Records
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The result of this change will provide more information as part of the Census 2000 Public Law 94-171 redistricting data reports. The prototype data from the 1998 Dress Rehearsal Census will include both “single race” totals for those who choose only one race and “all-inclusive” totals for those who mark more than one of the basic race groups.
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The founding fathers of the United States envisaged the census not simply as a tool for apportioning representatives, but rather as a means of gathering information about American society. James Madison, the primary author of the constitution, argued forcefully that the census should "embrace some objects besides the basic enumeration of the population." Madison pressed for the enumeration of occupations, since it would provide the "kind of information . . . all legislatures had wished for" and "it would give . . . an opportunity of marking the progress of society, and distinguishing the growth of every interest . . . this would furnish ground for many useful calculations" (Magnuson 1995: 12-13). After the first census, Thomas Jefferson and his fellow members of the American Philosophical Society lobbied for the expansion of detail on age, birthplace, and occupation "in order to ascertain more completely the causes which influence life and health" and "the conditions and vocations of our fellow citizens" (Magnuson 1995:15).
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As a Center in the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, the CIR maintains active links with divisions of the Bureau. For further information, access the Bureau of Census World Wide Web server or the Department of Commerce World Wide Web server.
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