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CENSUS - federal census schedules

         For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the lives of our ancestors by the records of history?

 

~ Cicero ~

A federal census has been recorded every ten years since 1790.  Information from the 1890 schedule was destroyed by a fire at the Commerce Department.  Beginning in 1850, the names and ages of family members were listed with the head of household.  Images and abstracts of federal census schedules (1790-1940) are available at FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com.

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I am the great-great-great granddaughter of Nathaniel Sims.  This website contains information about his life and details of his descendants.   Nathaniel Sims was born about 1794 in Wake County, North Carolina.  He was a farmer and also Justice of the Peace.  Nathaniel had five children with his first wife, Prudence Killough: James Anderson Sims, Rebecca Sue Sims, Samuel Killough Sims, Prudence N. Sims and Harriate Sims. He had three children by his second wife, Mary A. Morrison: Ann Mozelle Sims, Nathaniel McCamie Sims, and William M. Sims.  Nathaniel Sims passed away on 1 September 1968 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina.  Some of his descendants continue living in North Carolina today.
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