Free Online Census - Records & Lookups

Free access to all U.S. census records from 1790 through 1930, most with digitized images, is available in the Historical Records collection of Ancestry.com. To search each census directly, browse by location and then scroll down to "United States."

Afrigeneas maintains a wonderful list of links to online census data with clues for African American researchers, including lists of Free Persons of Color, Mortality Schedules, Slave Schedules, etc.

While this site does contain many links to paid subscription databases at Ancestry.com, there are also thousands of useful links to free census records on the Web.

Part of Christines Genealogy Websites, this list of online census links, organized by country, includes thousands of links to free online census records.

Lists of links to free online census records organized by state. Mark Reed does an excellent job of keeping this database up-to-date!

Browse this list to find volunteers willing to do lookups on hundreds of CDs containing genealogical information, including many census CDs.

Free census records are available online through this all-volunteer census transcription project. Search by surname or by state (or both).