These pages are compiled from a transcription of the 1870 Lawrence County census which I did in 1983 from the National Archive microfilms. I've listed the pages just as they were done in the original census.

DOCUMENT CONTENT

As you'll see, when I transcribed the web pages, I captured a limited set of information -- sorry 'bout that. What I picked up for every individual was their page number, name and age. Unfortunately I did not pick up the birthplaces, occupations, etc. But as I mentioned, the record contains everyone -- not just heads of households.

In reading the census, the practice I used when recording unnamed infants was to identify them as either "Infant F." or "Infant M."; letting the F indicate female and M indicate male as recorded by the census taker. The ages of infants in this census were given in months. I have included those as fractions with the divisor of 12. For example, a child recorded in the original census as four months old, is listed in this transcription with an age of "4/12".

If you come across names on the census pages that you think I may have recorded incorrectly, I'd appreciate hearing about it. The microfilm copy I have for this census is in very good shape. There were several names though that I simply just couldn't make out because of the script. And I may have made a few plain old mistakes somewhere in the roughly 8600 entries that are on the microfilm.

INDEXING & ACCESS

I've put up a web page for each census page, from 191 through 305 as listed in the microfilm. There are several pages which have no content, and I haven't included them here. I've also provided an index which include all names with their page number indicated.