Tips from the Pros of Ancestry.com – Researching the US Census Online

Posted on August 4, 2006 by Lorelle VanFossen

The 24/7 Family History Circle has a great tip from the pros on reading the Census records on Ancestry.com that may save you some time and effort.

Most of us are slow to read everything on a computer monitor, so it was quite a while before I noticed three small words just above the results table of my searches in the English censuses, They are blue and underlined–All Census Results.

Obviously this is a link, and I discovered it leads to a table showing a list of the number of hits in any available census return matching the criteria I had specified.

I’ve spent a lot of time digging through online US Census records recently, and I sure wish I’d had this tip first.

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Lorelle VanFossen hosts Family History Blog covering her ancestors and related family members. She is one of the top bloggers in the world, and host of the Lorelle on WordPress, providing WordPress and blogging tips for bloggers of all levels. A popular keynote speaker and trainer, she is also editor, producer, contributor, and official disruptive thinker for Bitwire Media which includes WordCast, Making My Life Network, Stories of Our Journeys, Life on the Road, WordCast Conversations, and the very popular WordCast Podcast.
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