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dot.gif (910 bytes)  1820, 1830, 1840 Shippen and Keating Townships - This link is to the McKean County site.   There are familiar Shippen TWP surnames in Keating Township...not sure if there is a connection.

dot.gif (910 bytes)  1850 Townships pre-Cameron County - Cameron County was a part of Elk, McKean, Clinton and Potter Counties in 1850

dot.gif (910 bytes)  1860 Cameron County pre Cameron County- Cameron County was a part of Elk, McKean, Clinton and Potter Counties when the census was taken in 1860.

dot.gif (910 bytes)  1863 Septennial Census

dot.gif (910 bytes)  1870 Cameron County - This project, taken on by Mary Ellen Smith, is Complete!.  If you find this information useful, please let Mary Ellen know....she spent hundreds of hours reading and typing all of this information so it would be available for us to use!

  • Index A-G

  • Index H-M

  • Index N-Z

  • Emporium Borough   Part 1 (House # 1-124)  Part2 (House # 125-172) -pg0532a, pg0538a

  • Gibson Part 1 (House # 1-84) Part 2 (House # 85-155) Part3 (House # 156-190)-pg0486a, pg0492a, pg0498a

  • Grove  - pg0502a

  • Lumber  - Part 1 (House 1- 84)  Part 2 (House 85- 123)pg0508a, pg0514a

  • Portage  - pg0518a

  • Shippen  Part1 (House #1-102) Part 2 (House #103-192) -pg0520a, pg0526b

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        1870 Mortality Schedule- This is a list of people who died in 1870 before the 1870 Census was taken.  Contributed by Donna (Caskey) Jones

    dot.gif (910 bytes)  1880 Cameron County - This project taken on by Mary Ellen Smith and Donna Gigliotti is now complete. If you find this information useful, please let Mary Ellen and Donna know....they spent hundreds of hours reading and typing all of this information so it would be available for us to use!  

  • Index  A-C

  • Index  D-H

  • Index  I- L

  • Index  M-Q

  • Index  R-Z

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    dot.gif (910 bytes) 1890 Cameron County Special Veterans Census - Mary Ellen Smith has transcribed this rarely seen census record. If you find it useful, please drop her a note and let her know! This census is of military veterans living in the county in 1890. The surviving 1890 schedules provide the address, number of families in the house, number of persons in the house, and number of persons in the family. Individuals are listed by name; whether a soldier, sailor, or marine during the Civil War; and whether Union or Confederate or whether the widow of a veteran; relationship to head of family; whether white, black, mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, Chinese, Japanese, or Indian; sex; age; marital status; whether married during the year; if a mother, number of children and number living; place of birth of the individual and his or her father and mother; if foreign born, how many years in the United States; whether naturalized or in the process of naturalization; profession, trade, or occupation; months unemployed during census year; ability to read and write; ability to speak English; if not, language or dialect spoken; whether suffering from acute or chronic disease (if so, name of disease and length of time afflicted); whether defective in mind, sight, hearing, or speech; or whether crippled, maimed, or deformed (with name of defect); whether a prisoner, convict, homeless child, or pauper; whether the home is rented or owned by the head or a member of the family (if so, whether mortgaged); if the head of family was a farmer, if he or a family member rented or owned the farm; and, if mortgaged, the post office address of the owner.

    dot.gif (910 bytes)  1900 Cameron County - This project, by Mary Ellen Smith, is Complete!.  If you find this information useful, please let Mary Ellen know....she spent hundreds of hours reading and typing all of this information so it would be available for us to use!

    dot.gif (910 bytes)  1910 Cameron County This project, by Mary Ellen Smith, is Complete!.  If you find this information useful, please let Mary Ellen know....she spent hundreds of hours reading and typing all of this information so it would be available for us to use!.  The Census images are also online so you can see the the actual pages of the original census (see below)

    Janice Clauer has transcribed the index for the Emporium borough (part of) East Ward - ED#3 If you find this information useful, please let Janice know. She spent countless hours transcribing this information so we could use it. The 1910 Census images are now online! With thanks to SK Publications and folks from the PACAMERO E-mail list for making this possible! You will need to know the enumeration district and the page number to easily use the images.  It would work best to save the image to your computer and use a GIF viewer to view the pages.  That way you can zoom in on the page. The index below contains the page number in E.D. 3 for the corresponding names.

    The following is a breakdown showing which county subdivisions are enumerated in each Enumeration District:


    Driftwood Borough: ED 001-01A through 001-06A
    Gibson Township: ED 001-07A through 001-21B
    Grove Township: ED 002
    Emporium Borough, East Ward: ED 003 See Index below!
    Emporium Borough, Middle Ward: ED 141
    Emporium Borough, West Ward: ED 004
    Portage Township: ED 005-01A through 005-02A
    Lumber Township: ED 005-03A through 005-09A
    Shippen Township: ED 006

    • Emporium Borough - East Ward  You can locate names listed here on the images online.

    dot.gif (910 bytes) 1920 Cameron County - Mary Ellen Smith has completed transcribing the 1930 Census. If you find this information useful, please let Mary Ellen know....she spent hundreds of hours reading and typing all of this information so it would be available for us to use!.

            

    dot.gif (910 bytes)  1930 Cameron County - Mary Ellen Smith has completed transcribing the 1930 Census. If you find this information useful, please let Mary Ellen know....she spent hundreds of hours reading and typing all of this information so it would be available for us to use!.

    Debbie Barrett has transcribed the Index for the 1930 Census. Some of the names were not readable on the census...If you can fill in any of the missing names, please contact Mike. If you find this information useful, please let Debbie know....she spent dozens of hours reading and typing all of this information so it would be available for us to use!  The Census is found on NARA Microfilm T626 Roll 2014

    Info on the 1930 Census

     

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