Native American Nations
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Native American research around the 20th century was buoyed by the inclusion of all Native Americans in the 1900 census. Whether enumerated within the Indian Territory, or enumerated on the many reservations spread out across the United States, Native Americans were finally being counted. This provides the researcher a great and mostly unused tool in the search for their Native American ancestors. Finding these Native Americans has gotten a lot easier with Ancestry's recent indexing of the 1900 census. While the index is complete, it's not perfect. The writing of some enumerators was poor, and the quality of some census pages is lacking. Be prepared to browse their census images keeping the following tips in mind:
These census forms will help you keep track of the census information you find online: Free Census Forms. The 1900 census provides a view at the turn of the 20th century unlike any other American resource. The census covers almost 75 million people, and while not everyone is always enumerated, the census provides a snapshot of history like nothing else. Information Found Within the 1900 Census
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