-- MORTALITY SCHEDULES This was posted on Ancestry.....someone was asking about it recently: Included in the 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 censuses were questions regarding those who died in the twelve months prior to the enumeration. They list persons who died 1 June - 31 May of the year prior to the census. Even though these lists of deaths are widely believed to under-report actual numbers of deceased, this is still a valuable source of information. In many states where vital records were not kept it provides a nation-wide death register for five years between 1849 and 1880. The schedule lists the deceased name, sex, age, color, widowed or not, place of birth, month of death, occupation, and cause of death. In 1870 the parents' birthplace was added.