Appearing in large bold letters at the top of each page are:
Town or Townshipship
City (or nearest post office)
Page number.
Appearing in columns on each page are:
DW (Dwelling number--- i.e. the first, second, third, etc. dwelling the census taker visited on his
We did NOT include the following information available on the census on our online summary:
Color, Occupation or
Profession, Value of Real Estate and Value of Personal Estate.
Click on the township name to see the full census information we have online. Surnames found in each township are listed below to help you in your search. Often a surname appears more than once in one township.
Use your search/find keys to find names with the knowledge that names were often misspelled and that census takers were not always very literate folks. For example, the surname, Reed, might appear as Reid, Read, Rede, Ried, etc. This is especially true of German and Czech (i.e. Bohemian) names as well as Scandinavian surnames (Anderson vs Andersen or Meyer, Meier, Myer, etc.).