Censuses... what can I say?  If you've never experienced finding a whole missing family before, you have not lived!!  I call these "cluster" genealogy -- if you find one, you usually find several members of the family.  And I simply LOVE IT when I find the parents and their daughter & her hubby living with them -- GREAT way to find those married daughters' surnames.  And people really did marry "the boy next door"!

NOTE:  I have received complaints over the years -- "Why don't you correct the misspellings in the censuses?" -- when we transcribe censuses or other genealogical material, we write what we see... Personally, I use a little more lee-way when I "INDEX" something -- if the spelling is so outrageous, I will add a note and INDEXES are indexes.  The original census offers much more information and well worth locating!

FEDERAL censuses are available at the 13 Federal Archives -- Shawano's closest one is Chicago on S. Pulaski Road (great hot dog place nearby!).  And most are available through ancestry.com for a fee.  Also, the Family History Library will send censuses via microfilm to you at any of the 2200+ Family History Centers throughout the world.

Censuses are almost as cool as a good obituary!!! (By now you know how much I value obits aka "mini-biographies"!)

 
1855 State Census - index of Shawano County residents
1860 Federal Census - index of Shawano County residents
  THE FOLLOWING ARE FREE ONLINE CENSUS IMAGES COURTESY OF FAMILYSEARCH.ORG
 
1855 WISCONSIN STATE CENSUS
Name index and images of the Wisconsin state population census taken in 1855. This census only identifies the head of family by name.
1875 WISCONSIN STATE CENSUS
Name index and images of the Wisconsin state population census taken in 1875. This census only identifies the head of family by name.
1885 WISCONSIN STATE CENSUS
Name index and images of the Wisconsin State Census taken on 20 June 1885. The images include the population schedule and the soldiers and sailors schedule. This census only identifies the head of family by name. The census does not include American Indians on reservations in Wisconsin. An enumeration was also taken of soldiers & sailors of the Late War (Civil War).
1895 WISCONSIN STATE CENSUS
Name index and images of the Wisconsin State Census taken in 1895. This census only identifies the head of family by name. The rest of the census is statistical. The census does not include American Indians on reservations in Wisconsin. Two additional schedules are included in this census - an enumeration of soldiers and sailors, and an enumeration of the militia.
1905 WISCONSIN STATE CENSUS
Name index and images of the Wisconsin population schedule taken by that state in 1905. This census enumerates by name all of the state's inhabitants as of June 1, 1905.
   
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS FOR WISCONSIN - Shawano would have been OCONTO County.
1860 FEDERAL CENSUS FOR WISCONSIN - Shawano is now a county.
1870 FEDERAL CENSUS FOR WISCONSIN
1880 FEDERAL CENSUS FOR WISCONSIN - no images, just index
1900 FEDERAL CENSUS FOR WISCONSIN
1920 FEDERAL CENSUS FOR WISCONSIN
   
  *** Next FEDERAL census release is on or about April 1, 2012 -- since April 1st is on a weekend, not sure how they will release it.  Federal censuses are released AFTER 72 years for privacy issues.  Why 72 years?  At the time, it was the average life expectancy!

And, this will be the FIRST DIGITIZED CENSUS - no microfilms - and it is supposed to be released ONLINE in April 2012 when it is available for public use.
   

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN INDEXED AND ARE IN THE SHAWANO GENWEB PROJECT SITE:

1870 Federal Census   - index of Shawano County residents

 
1880 Federal Census is now FREE online at FamilySearch.
1910 Indian Census - Ho-Chunk
1938 Indian Census - Stockbridge - Munsee
1930 Federal Census -- A WORK IN PROGRESS!
LOOK-UP OFFER -  I'll gladly check and send you a FREE copy of the page for any FEDERAL or STATE CENSUSES that you would like checked... just email me and send me your ancestor's name & approx. birth year and I'll send you the census copy via email me -- no charge -- just let me know WHICH CENSUSES you want researched.
  And, if you would like to work on indexing a census for the Shawano site, email me and we'll get you the pages you need!
 

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