bookratt,
I am looking for a relative in England and I would find those census records helpfull in my search. How can I access them or contact you. I don't want to post the name on the forum.
The census records for the UK that I have are from about 1821 to 1911. For Canada approx the same. For the US they are from approx 1790 to 1930, excepting 1890 (due to destruction by fire of most records and the states keeping no recorded copies) and also 1790, 1800 and 182o for areas mostly in the West and South.
Only the white, male, of age (voting age) head of household is listed from 1790 thru 1830. 1840 and beyond only names are listed, no relationship to head of household is given and finally, in 1850 most info is there.
To get full access to Ancestry.com you must pay about $1200 a year; I use the library edition via my local public library, which costs me $1 a year to subscribe to the library. I am not allowed to provide copies or scanned images of what I find, I can only provide transcriptions in small batches to avoid violating copyright.
I do not accept any money for the info. I am not permitted to accept remuneration of any kind in exchange.
If Jewish, they may be listed as Hebrew or Yiddish or simply as German or Polish, then listed for ethnicity or language: Yiddish or Hebrew. If they did not do this, then they will simply be listed as German or Polish or Austro Hungarian or Russian based on the year the census was taken (based on whoever was in power/occupying the country at that time).
For Blacks and any mixed race slaves, many names will not be recorded at all, or just first names will be, until approx. 1860 and even those are few, as most are recorded on the property lists of chattel (ie: in the animal husbandry records next to pigs and horses owned, or in tax records or in inheritance records such as wills/deeds, rather than in the historical census).
Blacks, Mulattoes, Indians, Chinese and any others of mixed race will be listed in full if they are freemen by birth or are freed slaves, otherwise, they will be recorded as for Black slaves (which is to say, not at all in many cases until at least 1860).
I will search by several keywords you provide and will run "exact name" and also "sounds like" or SOUNDEX searches.
That said I will need names, ages, origins, occupations and if you know approx where they may have gone (region or city in US, city or parish in UK), that helps.
If the name is not common, the name alone may be enough; if a common name, I will need all of the above info or names of parents, wives and children at the least. Please help me out by providing possible Polish dimunitives or shortened names if you know them ( I know some but not enough). You'd be surprised how early many immigrants were using them of their own accord and may have used them on early documents or in letters home.
Sorry to be so wordy, but if others see this and need my help, now all the info is there for them to see and refer to.
