Federal Population Schedules. Indexed 1790 (1791), 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860 Soundex 1880, 1900, 1920 Unindexed 1870, 1910 Industry and Agriculture Schedules. 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 Mortality Schedules. 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 (all indexed) Union Veterans Schedules. 1890 (indexed) > >Because Vermont joined the union as the fourteenth state in 1791, it missed >the first federal census by one year. Although labeled 1790, the census was >actually taken one year later. Families in other states may be listed on >that state's 1790 census and again in Vermont's a year later, having >migrated in the interim. The Vermont Historical Society published the full >1800 census, which was reissued in a reprint edition in 1972 by >Genealogical Publishing Company. Countywide 1870 census heads-of-household >indexes for Windham and Windsor were privately published by Joan M. Morris >in seperate volumes (1977, 1980). The 1810 and 1820 censuses for some Vermont towns include a tally of such things as the number of yards of material made on the premises and the amount of lumber milled. When using the census records, care should be taken to consider alternate spelling, especially for French-Canadians, Italian, and Greek names of new immigrants after 1850. Original and microfilm copies of the 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 population, industry, and agriculture schedules and microfilm of the mortality schedules are located at Vermont Department of Libraries, State Office Building, 109 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05609-0601, although originals are restricted for general research purposes. The so-called 1771 Census by Jay Mack Holbrook (Oxford, Mass.: Holbrook Research, 1982) is not an official census. It is a collection of names associated with Vermont in 1771 drawn from several sources in New York, New Hampshire, and Connecticut as well as Vermont. Many of the names listed were granted land but never lived in Vermont. Checking the appearance of the name in the original source should help clarify this. Background Sources: Bassett, T. D. Seymour, ed. Vermont: A Bibliography of Its History. 1981. Reprint. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1983. This comprehensive bibliography includes numerous local, state, and town histories, and commemorative publications. Montpelier, Vt.: New Trails!, 1986. A genealogical handbook focusing specifically on the availability of the extensive original records in Vermont. A listing of available lot maps for towns (see Maps) is included. Hemenway, Abby Maria. Vermont Historical Gazetteer. 5 vols. Burlington, Vt., and others, 1867–91. Hemenway enlisted the assistance of at least one knowledgeable resident of each town to research and write the histories included in these volumes. Since those people tended to know the individuals about whom they wrote, the information is reasonably good oral history. An index covering all towns except those in Windsor County was published in 1923 by Tuttle Company, in Rutland, Vermont, and indicates town as well as volume and page number for person named. Jones, Matt Bushnell. Vermont in the Making. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1939. This is probably the most detailed and easy to read account of the Vermont land controversy and its role in the Revolution and formation of the United States. Lindberg, Marcia Wiswall. Genealogist's Handbook for New England Research. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1985. An essential guide for planning a research trip in Vermont, but because of its date of publication, call ahead to confirm hours, location, and record availability. O'Callaghan, E. B. Documentary History of the State of New York. 4 vols. Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parson & Co., 1849–51. This work contains much history regarding the land controversy between New York and Vermont. Volume 4 contains a large number of Vermont-related document transcriptions. Vermonters are included in Holbrook, 1771 Census (see Census Records). Stilwell, Lewis Dayton. Migration from Vermont. Montpelier, Vt.: Vermont Historical Society, 1948. This is a superbly documented description, generally using secondary sources, of migration in and emigration from Vermont as it related to social and economic problems encountered by Vermonters through 1860. Swift, Esther Munroe. Vermont Place-Names: Footprints of History. Brattleboro, Vt.: Stephen Greene Press, 1977. Swift adeptly portrays the complicated history of Vermont's changing jurisdictions during the land controversy and gives fine descriptive accounts of thousands of place-names in Vermont, including Native American sources and surnames. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.