The FamilySearch website indicates the 1870 Federal US Census on their site is 74% complete. Indexes are available for:

• Alabama
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Dakota Territory
• Delaware
• District of Columbia
• Florida
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• Utah
• Vemont
• Washington
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

I'll have to give it a try on some of my brick walls. Unfortunately two of them were probably in Missouri in 1870, so I won't get too creative on searching for them until Missouri is added to the list of searchable states.

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In most of the data at Familysearch, first name only searches are not possible. This is okay for ancestors named John or William, but sometimes some of us have unusual first names that are passed down in specific families or first names that are kind of unusual and last names that can be written incorrectly.

I am searching for Elam Blain(e) in Ohio--searching the Ohio tax records on FamilySearch. I thought perhaps Blain was totally mispelled and tried searching for men with the first name Elam. There were a few, none of whom had a last name close to Blain.

I like being able to search based on first names only. This is a nice improvement.

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I'm not certain this is a Kile from my wife's family, but this is a screen shot from FamilySearch's new 1816-1838 Ohio Tax Records.

This database that was recently added to the Familysearch site. It is located in the United States, Canada, Mexico section. I'll be waiting for it to be complete.

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Familysearch is 25% done with this database that was just added to its site. These tax lists are in the United States, Canada, and Mexico section. Unfortunately I could not find my Thomas Rampley in Coshocton County, but these probably have not been added and I have not yet had time to browse the counties and dates that are currently available.

Images are there too! Cool. We'll be blogging more about this one.

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Labels: 1861 census, ancestry, familysearch

Labels: 1870 census, ancestry, familysearch

I got all excited until I read the fine print. The subject lines on many of the emails floating around about this topic aren't exactly precise.

FamilySearch is adding the 1870 Census to its website. Cool. Right now, though, it is incomplete. I got all exited a little too early.

From Tom Kemp's GenealogyBank Blog:

"The 1870 census is available in two formats:

Indexed and Searchable - search every name in the census for these States:
at the time of this writing only for the states of Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Dakota Territory, Delaware,District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah.

Browsable - lets you look at the images of each page in the census --at this writing available for all states except Kentucky, Vermont and Virginia. "

I'll take a look at the 1870 Adams County, Illinois Census for Northeast Township. It is VERY difficult to read on the microfilm. Ancestry improved the images, but they are still a little gray. I'm waiting for the index to be complete--maybe then I can find my Johann/John/Jann Ufkes who proves to be elusive in 1870! It always is great to have separate indexes to the same record---sometimes someone else reads something differently.

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