Yesterday, October 23, 2002, President Hinckley announced the release of the 1880 United
States census and the 1881 Canadian census on the Church's family history Internet
site,
www.familysearch.org. Church officials chose to digitize the 1880 United States
census because it was more complete than the 1870 census, which was the first to include
former slaves as individuals rather than property. Most of the 1890 census records were
destroyed in a 1921 fire in the basement of the Commerce Department in Washington, D.C.
Linda Dela Torres
Cayton, Hickerson, Hotchkiss, and Sterne Lists Owner