census record
Official headcount data
A census record is an official document from a government population count, listing individuals by household along with demographic information like age, birthplace, occupation, and family relationships.
Genealogists rely heavily on census records to trace ancestors: I found my great-grandmother in the 1920 census record.
The term typically refers to historical records, as modern census data remains confidential for decades.
- populationAll inhabitants combined
- enumerationSequential listing of items
- householdDomestic unit of residents
- head of householdFamily's chief decision-maker
- surnameHereditary family identifier
maiden name · birthplace · place of birth · occupation · ancestry · genealogy · archive · national archives · county clerk · microfilm · paper trail · dwelling · immigrant · naturalization · vital · vital statistics · headcount · survey
- historical documentsDeclaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Emancipation Proclamation, Federalist Papers
- historical recordsdiary, annual reviews, letter, ledger, archives
- life recordsautobiography, biography, birth certificate, death certificate, genealogy
- recordsGuinness, documents, album, death certificates, files
- genealogy recordsbirth certificates, death certificates, marriage licenses, vital statistics, family trees
- historical mediadocumentary, newsreel, archival footage, vintage radio, silent film
census recordbirth certificate
Official record of arrival
death certificate · vital record · marriage certificate · oral history · personal narrative
census recordpersonal diary
Private record of thoughts
oral tradition · off-the-books · folk memory · samizdat · private correspondence
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