A person who starts researching their family history very quickly runs into the question – ”What Happened to the 1890 Census?
In summary, there was a fire at the U.S. Commerce building in Washington DC, which destroyed a very large percentage of the population schedules from the 1890 federal census. Either fire or water damage eliminated this valuable resource. All that is left is a mere fraction of the population schedules. From these states, only a partial of one or two counties were saved: Alabama, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, and Texas.
There are fragments and alternative collections to search, so you aren’t totally lost.
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