Over at GenealogyWise, in the Texas History Hunters Group, Barbara Cunningham pointed out that Texas school census records can be a 1890 census substitute. “In some counties, the County Clerk keeps and maintains the records. In other counties, they are kept by the County Judge,” Barbara said. [Note for non-Texans: the "County Judge" is not a judicial officer--at least not anymore--but is the chief executive officer of a county].
I actually have copies of school census cards for my grandfather’s family who lived in Rockdale, Milam County. Here’s one for my grand-aunt Myrtle from 1905.
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Tags: African-Americans, Census Substitutes, Manson, Milam County, Rockdale, Texas
August 1st, 2009 at 8:06 am
This is very interesting! I’ve not heard of School Census Records” before. Do you know if they had those in NC? (I’ll have to check this out.) What a wonderful find!
August 1st, 2009 at 8:32 am
Don’t know about NC, but I suspect every state has something similar. I know when I lived in VA they had a form that went to every home–it was mandatory by law to return stating whether or not you had school-age children, their names, and ages.
October 9th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Please some-one tell me how to obtain one of these records.
Phone number, adress, Email adress. Anything will help
Thank you!