["During the Great Depression, the Michigan Department of Treasury collaborated with the Works Progress Administration to undertake an extensive survey of nearly all land parcels in the state (excluding Wayne County). The survey served two purposes: it provided jobs for unemployed engineers, land surveyors, and appraisers while giving the state a basis for assessing property taxes. The project started late in 1935 and continued until 1942."]

[The original documents used for creating the CDs of the Census1836 collection are preserved and freely accessible at the "Archives départementales du Bas-Rhin, 5 rue Fischart, 67000 STRASBOURG, France." All these documents are in the serie 7M. Baerendorf (7M238), Kirrberg (7M473).

For all the people, gathered by families, information available is: name, first names, age, profession, marital status, address and possible observations noted in the register.

Extracts provided by Betty-Jane Lee, received September 29, 2008.]

[Census day June 1, 1860. Recorded September 4, 1860.]

[Since Canada didn’t officially become a country until 1867, the first national census wasn’t held until 1871. The 1861 Census of Canada is a collection of five provincial censuses.

This database contains a name index to these censuses along with images of the original records. Due to the poor quality of the original filming, some images are unreadable or very difficult to read. As a result, some names may not appear in the index.

What Areas are Included:

Censuses were taken throughout different times of the year in the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Canada East (Lower Canada, or roughly southern Quebec), and Canada West (Upper Canada, or roughly southern Ontario).

Note: Not all of the 1861 censuses have survived, so this database does not contain a complete representation of the above areas.]