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Why subscribe to CensusTrail.com?

Our features for conducting searches are designed to provide you with the greatest opportunity for success:

• With soundex or wildcard search using “%” your ability to find names is greatly increased. Using the wildcard you can even get a complete alphabetical listing of a state for one decennial year! None of the major genealogy databases provide that opportunity.
• One can conduct a search based on a historical locality that does not exist now. For example: The Territory Northwest of the Ohio River, Mississippi Territory, or Indiana Territory, etc.
• We have names on our database that you won’t find on the three largest online databases. Click here to see the details of a study clearly demonstrating this fact.
• The three largest online databases have billions of names available. However, there were not that many people living here for the time period we are working on. Only about 3,000,000 people lived in America in 1790 with less than 400,000 heads of household.
• Unlike the non-census records in other web-sites, Censustrail.com organizes the information by date and locality like a census would.
• We focus our efforts on areas of missing censuses so the impact of our database is concentrated where it is needed most. Excluding existing census records, our files are quite large for their area of focus.
  • For example, our files for Indiana and Missouri already contain most heads of household residing there circa 1810 when their federal census is missing. Click here to see our progress on other areas.
• Our database may be able to help you identify where your ancestor lived and when for a time period that is usually quite difficult because of missing census records.
• Knowing when and where your ancestors were located is vital to your research because you then know what specific records to search.
• We include information where records have been burned, such as Burke or Washington Counties, Georgia .

What we are doing is very expensive and that is why we are subscription based. You benefit by subscribing even if we don’t have the records you need presently. Your assistance will help us in getting those records online.