Census Records Online
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Tax Lists and other Census Substitutes

Census Tools and Reference

FEDERAL CENSUS POPULATION SCHEDULES

"Article I, section 2, of the U.S. Constitution requires that a decennial population census, a nationwide enumeration or count of the population, be taken every 10 years. Congress uses the census figures to apportion seats in the House of Representatives. The census also determines each state's number of votes in the electoral college, which selects the President and Vice President; and affects apportionment in state and local legislatures. Section 9 provides that 'no capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.'

The population schedules, first prepared in 1790, contain a wealth of information for historians, economists, and other researchers interested in topics such as Revolutionary War pensioners, Civil War veterans, western expansion, regional and local history, immigration, and naturalization. To ensure the privacy of individuals, Congress has provided for a 72-year restriction to access of Federal census schedules. The 1920 census was released in 1992; the 1930 census [was] opened in 2002."
Source: United States Census Bureau

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CENSUS RECORDS ONLINE

TRANSCRIPTIONS (TEXT FILES):

Please note that while every effort is made to provide accurate transcriptions of census data on this site, our transcriptions are intended to be used as a locating guide. Always consult the original of any document before adding data to your family files.

Census Year	District / County	NARA Microfilm Roll No.(s)
1790 Image Files (opens to directory includes all districts)	Georgetown District	# M637-11
1800	Liberty County, Marion District	# M32-49
1810	Marion District	# M252-61
1820	Marion District	# M33-121
1830	Marion District	# M19-172
1840	Marion District	# M704-513
1850	Marion County	# M432-856 (free schedule) # M432-866 (slave schedule) - Agricultural Schedule
1860	Marion County	# M653-1223 - free schedule # M653-1236 - slave schedule 1860 Agricultural Schedule
1869	Marion County	(State census)
1870	Marion County	# M593-1503 - Agricultural Schedule
1880	Marion County	# T9-1234 and T9-1235
1890	The 1890 was destroyed by the National Archives
1900	Marion County	# T623-1535
1910	Marion County
1920	Marion County
1930	Marion County

NEIGHBORING COUNTIES
Darlington	1800 Federal Census Images 1810 Federal Census Images 1820 Federal Census Images 1830 Federal Census Images 1860 Federal Census Images
Dillon	1790 - 1900 - here on Marion County 1910 - 1930
Florence	1800 - 1880 See: Clarendon, Darlington, Marion (this page), and Williamsburg
Georgetown	1790 Federal Census Images 1800 Federal Census Images 1800 Federal Census Transcription (on Yauhannah Historical Society site)
Horry	1800 Federal Census, (Annotated) 1830 Federal Census (on Yauhannah Historical Society site) 1840 Federal Census, (Partial, ZIP file) 1880 Federal Census, Gallivant's Ferry Township (Abstracted) 1880 Federal Census, Dog Bluff Township (Abstracted) 1920 Federal Census - Simpson Township Sheets 8 & 9
Marlboro	1860 Federal Census
Williamsburg	1810 Census Index 1810 Census 1850 Census Surname Index 1850 Household Index - A-F 1850 Household Index - G-Mc 1850 Household Index - Mc-Z Use indices to locate page number, then go here: 1850 Census directory

CENSUS TOOLS AND REFERENCE

• Dates Census was taken:
  1790 census taken starting on 2 August 1790
  1800 census taken starting on 4 August 1800
  1810 census taken starting on 6 August 1810
  1820 census taken starting on 7 August 1820
  1830-1900 census taken starting on 1 June of the census year.
  1910 census was taken starting on 15 April 1910
  1920 census was taken starting on 1 January 1920
  1930 census was taken starting on 1 April 1930

• Old Marion Townships Map
• Dillon Township Map
• Printable Forms
  • Census Forms 1790 - 1930 (Ancestry.com site, in .PDF format ONLY)
  • Census Forms 1790 - 1920 (Genealogy.com, not as complete as Ancestry's but in .GIF (browser viewable) format)
  • Family Tree Maker Forms
    A good site, with many printable forms for documenting research, but the census forms do not include the page and line number columns -- very important when you want to go have another look at that census data!
• Marion County, South Carolina
  U.S. Census Bureau stats
• Chart Used To Calculate The Year Of Birth From The Census
• Deciphering Old Handwriting
• How the " leading S"  looks in old documents.
• Occupations found on the Census
• Colonial Occupations

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TAX LISTS AND OTHER CENSUS "SUBSTITUTES"

• PETITIONS:
  • 1757 Petition, Old Craven County, SC
    (horse thieves Cow stealers hog stealers Sabbath Brakers)
  • 1788 Petition - Inhabitants of Little Pee Dee
  • 1794 Petition, Liberty (Marion) County, SC
• TAX LISTS:
  • 1784 Tax List, Prince Frederick's Parish, SC
  • 1786 Tax List, Prince Frederick's Parish, SC
  • 1786 Tax List, Prince George Parish
  • 1787 Tax List of Prince George Parish (on Yauhannah Historical Society site)
  • 1788-1800 Account Book Names
• MILITIA MUSTER ROLLS:
  • See Marion Military Page
• MARION COUNTY VOTER LISTS

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