Census Records
Texas residents can obtain free remote access to HeritageQuest Online through the TexShare Databases program. You will need to contact your local library to get the LOG IN and PASSWORD for the TexShare Databases. Some libraries have a link on their website and the login information is your library card number. Other libraries will give you the local LOG IN and PASSWORD and you will use them at http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/texshare/pl/index.html
Not from Texas? You, too, may have access to the Heritage Quest Databases and not realize it. The Encyclopedia of Genealogy has a list of libraries in every state which have free access for YOU. Theoretically, this site is a Web 2.0 site which can be updated by users but we have been unable to successfully add updated information. So, if your area is not on these lists, call your local library and ask about Remote access to Heritage Quest. You may be pleasantly surprised.
Here's a REAL DEAL: For $20 a year, anyone can get a library card from the Mid-Continent Public Library in Independence, Missouri. With that card, you have remote, online access to Heritage Quest, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Proquest's obituaries, and other useful databases. This is by far the cheapest way to have access to the Heritage Quest censuses (other than free, of course!) and well worth the $20. We hear the obituaries alone are worth the $20 even if you don't need the census images.
To register for an out-of-district card, there is a $20 fee and the card is valid for one year.
Please send a check and the following information:
- Name (First, Middle and Last)
- Street Address
- Telephone number
- Date of Birth
Please make your check payable to: Mid-Continent Public Library
Please mail to:
- Assistant Director
- Mid-Continent Public Library
- 15616 East 24 Highway
- Independence, MO 64050
The Texshare databases contain far more than the Heritage Quest Databases and the HQ Databases contain far more than the Census Images. Be sure to follow up!
- There is no U S Federal Census Record for Fannin County prior to 1850.
Texas did not become a state until 1845. - 1840 Texas Slave Holders
- Article about the 1850 Texas Census Results
- 1850 Instructions for Census Takers
- 1850 Fannin County Slave Holders
- 1850 Fannin County Mortality Index
- 1850 Fannin County Census Index
- 1850 Fannin County Census Index A-J
- 1850 Fannin County Census Index K-Z
- 1850 Fannin County Census Transcription
- 1850 Fannin County Census 142a - 153b
- 1850 Fannin County Census 154a - 166a
- 1850 Fannin County Census 166b - 178b
- 1850 Fannin County Census 179a - End
- 1860 Fannin County Census Index
- 1860 Census Index A-C with active links to images
- 1860 Census Index D-G with active links to images
- 1860 Census Index H-K with active links to images
- 1860 Census Index L-N with active links to images
- 1860 Census Index O-T with active links to images
- 1860 Census Index U-Z with active links to images
- 1860 Fannin County Census - Partial Transcription
- 1860 Census - 168A to 184A
- 1860 Census - 185A to 194A
- 1860 Census - 194B to 204A
- Full U S 1880 Census Searchable Database. [At familysearch.org]
- 1880 Fannin County Census - Digital Images.
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The only copy of the 1890 census pages was severely damaged by fire in 1921. The destruction of the census pages, however, happened in 1935 as a result of human error. Read here about the fate of the destroyed 1890 census.
Over the years, some pages have been found which escaped the order for destruction. These pages have been microfilmed. These microfilms are further described in the linked article above. As for Texas, some pages from Trinity County and Ellis County were saved. No pages of the 1890 census for Fannin county are known to exist.
1890 Texas State Directory - R.L. Polk & Company © 12 Mar 1890
The 1900 census for the entire US has been indexed by volunteers world wide for the New Family Search project. The new site: http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html is currently in it's "Pilot" which means they are still working on it. It can disappear for a day or two and come back in a new and improved format. Census images are linked to the transcription. Many additonal helpful databases can also be found at this link, including the Texas Death Certificates! Make this site a favorite right away.
You too can volunteer to assist in the Family Search Indexing Project. The beauty of the program is that you can help in 30 minutes or less and from your own computer. The 1900 Census was completed in mere months because thousands of volunteers like yourself who transcribed a page or more. The current project appears to be the 1850 census... sign up today!
Other than a few pages of the 1930 census, below, we have no transcribed census records on the site for the above years. This does NOT mean you are out of luck. We have a suggestion for you....
Subscribe to the Fannin County Mailing list OR post a Query to the Fannin county Message Boards. (The Board postings are monitored by mailing list subscribers so it is not necessary to do both.) In either place, ask for a census look up. We have the most amazing group of mailing list subscribers who jump all over a request for a census look up! Give it a try.
Together we can continue to build the best FREE Genealogy sites on the Web.