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1880 United States Federal Census

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This database contains images of original records.

Sample Forms
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You can fill out the form with information on your ancestor, or just use it to better read the column headings.

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The examples should help you read the text on the original images more easily.

Please choose a county in Nebraska:

Adams Furnas Pawnee
Antelope Gage Phelps
Blackbird Gosper Pierce
Boone Greeley Platte
Buffalo Hall Polk
Burt Hamilton Red Willow
Butler Harlan Richardson
Cass Hayes Saline
Cedar Hitchcock Sarpy
Chase Holt Saunders
Cheyenne Howard Seward
Clay Jefferson Sherman
Colfax Johnson Sioux
Cuming Kearney Stanton
Custer Keith Thayer
Dakota Knox Unorganized Territory
Dawson Lancaster Valley
Dixon Lincoln Washington
Dodge Madison Wayne
Douglas Merrick Webster
Dundy Nance Wheeler
Fillmore Nemaha York
Franklin Nuckolls
Frontier Otoe

Census Records - Counties

After separating the census records into groups by state, the federal government subdivided these records into county groups. Searching for an ancestor on the county level provides a smaller region for research if you remain uncertain about the specific township where your ancestor resided. Researchers should also be aware of boundary line or jurisdictional changes through time. These changes may affect where an ancestor was enumerated on the census, so it remains important to search the counties surrounding the area where your ancestor lived.