Population Schedules of the Eighth Census of the United States

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• Title	Population Schedules of the Eighth Census of the United States
  Short Title	1860 United States Federal Census
  Author	United States. Census Office. 8th Census
  Publisher	Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives. Central Plains Region, 1950, 1967
  Repository	Ancestry.com
  Source ID	S44
  Linked to	Mary Jane Gibbons Mary Angeline Kite Hayne Cline Martin Augustus McGee Jeptha Alexander McGee Margaret E. McGee Samuel A. McGee Susan Ellen McGee William J. McGee Mary M. Robertson Clarissa A. Washburn Harriet C. Washburn Henry Washburn James William Washburn Mary Catherine Washburn Rudolph Henry Washburn Samuel Henry Washburn Sarah Elizabeth Washburn

  
  

• Notes

  The eighth federal census of the United States began on 1 June 1860. Census takers were given five months to complete the enumeration. They were instructed to list individuals who died after the first day of the enumeration and to not include children born after that first day. However, it is important to remember that sometimes the enumerator disregarded this instruction. This census gives the age, sex, color, occupation (for males over 15), value of real estate, and birthplace (state in the US or foreign country) of every individual. It also includes whether the individual attended school that year, married within the year, could read or write, or was deaf-mute, blind, "insane," or "idiotic."This was the first census to ask for the value of personal estates. It is thought that many did not reveal the true value of their estates for fear of being taxed accordingly. Census takers were to fill in a state or territory for the birthplace for each individual. If the individual was not born in the United States, the country was to be given--except for Germany and Great Britain. Specific provinces or countries within Germany and Great Britain were to be used instead. For Germany: Baden, Bavaria, Hesse-Darmstadt and Prussia. For Great Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Native Americans living on reservations or unsettled tracts of land were not included in this enumeration. Slaves were enumerated separately, on a slave schedule. This schedule did not list each slaves' name, but it did give the sex and age of every slave, the owner, how many were released from slavery and whether a fugitive or not.