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USA Today (Oct 23, 2002) reports that USA Census from 1880 is on-line.

Volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is renowned for its genealogical research facilities, spent 17 years inputting the 50 million entries into computers. The result can be found at www.familysearch.org. The site also has the British and Canadian censuses from 1881.

The 1880 Census is particularly significant, because it is the first online Census to include former slaves, and the second Census in history to record blacks as individuals rather than as pieces of property.

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