Title Info: 1870, U.S. Federal Census, Whatcom County, U.S. Census Bureau

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Record Creator:	Department of Commerce, U. S. Census Bureau
Description:	These records contain an index and images of the 1870 Whatcom County Federal Census.
Related Records:	For more information or to learn about related records, contact the Washington State Archives, Northwest Regional Branch at (360) 650-3125 or email [email protected].
Access Restriction Notes:	These records are open for research.
Sources of Transfer	Historic Records Project
Notes	For more information about this census, email the Historical Records Project at: [email protected] Original census material held by the National Archives and Records Administration. The transcription of the Census from a microfilm copy of the original U.S. Census Population Schedules was started in 1949 by Nell and Wayne Prickett, with assistance from members of the Seattle Genealogical Society. The index was started by a University of Washington Library School student and completed by volunteers and staff of The Seattle Public Library, History Department-Genealogy Section in 2003. The final preparation of the online database was done in 2007-2008 by Laura Goings, Tacoma, WA, Sue Ericksen of Zillah, WA and Frank McLean of Yakima, WA.
Agency History:	The need for a census was delineated in the United States Constitution Article I, section II. The initial population count took place in 1790 under the Census Office, a temporary agency. The Census Office operated only around the years of the census, until 1880 when processing the data from the census took the entire decade until the next census. Congress created the United States Census Bureau in 1902, a permanent agency which would not close in between census enumeration. The Bureau was initially under the Department of the Interior, but was transferred to the Department of Commerce in 1903.
Preferred Citation:	[Identification of item], 1870, U.S. Federal Census, Whatcom County, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://digitalarchives.wa.gov, [date accessed].
Record Count:	1,088