FootNote
The new kid on the block, FootNote is known for digitizing historical
documents... many of which are genealogical gems. With naturalizations,
city directories, war records, newspapers, town records, etc... this new
kid is quickly being recognized as an alternative to Ancestry.
Rhode Island was one of the original thirteen colonies
organized into a state. It's county structure has remained the same since
it's colonial days, allowing each of the counties to have been enumerated
every 10 years since 1790. Rhode Island is also unique in that it has also
performed state enumerations between 1865 and 1935. Unfortunately, one of
the most pivotal census, the 1895 (because it would help close the gap on
information lost from the 1890 federal census) is missing. Only the 1915
Rhode Island state census has been placed online and is available within the
county links below.
There were several colonial census taken in
Rhode Island prior to its establishment as a
state. Of those, only the
1774 census appears to
have been placed online.
