free sources for us 1850 census other than Family search

Question

I'm working on gettingb a profile that was originally created from a gedcom from Ancestry.  What a mess!  I've done several of these and had no trouble  getting the census records from family search, but this one for 1850 eludes me. It's pretty important, as it mentions his wife and some of his children, including married children (found it on Ancestry), but I've tried everything I can think of  at Family Search but nothing except the slave schedule, which I didn't even fine on Ancestry. 

can someone please either show me how to further search on FS (I'm learning, but still don't understand abouit the film roll type of restricted search, and couldn't get it to work, based on the Ancestry citation (which looks incomplete, by the way, so I included the next section on source information as well:

"Year: 1850; Census Place: District 1, Calloway, Kentucky; Roll: 194; Page: 484B

Source Information

Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C."

The name is also tricky, but other sources have been fairly easy to find, even though Pettypool is also written as p. Pool and P'Pool.

So if this is me not being able to fine something that's there, Help! Or if it's really missing, where else can i find an online source for this record that might include this household?

Answer 1

Hi Deborah.  If you just search the 1850 census collection in the Family Search data base for Robert Pettypool in Kentucky, you come up with about a half dozen hits for the surname "Pool" in Calloway County.  Just based on what you've posted here and other data in the profile, I think R.W.P. Pool born 1788 in Virginia is probably your man:

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M651-MBH : 1 March 2020), R W P Pool, Calloway county, Calloway, Kentucky, United States; citing family 537, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

  I've never actually tried to search FS census records by the NARA data, but I have a hunch it would drive me crazy.  If you do it that way, you could try searching archive.org, which is also free and appears to have all the data, but also seems totally disorganized.  There was another recent post here in G2G about how to find census records on that site, but I can't immediately put my finger on it.  Perhaps someone else kept track of that thread and will respond.

(Edited to correct name of site archive.org (no 's' after archive.)

Comments

Dennis has probably found the specific record you're looking for.  If you're looking for a method to find a census record on FamilySearch that doesn't show up in a search but you've found on Ancestry, you can try the method I described here:  https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/674458/this-is-why-i-only-want-to-use-ancestry

Answer 2

This page was set up a while ago.  I have updated it with all the census currently available.  If you know what census year you are looking for, you can get to that Census data, then select 'residence' and enter the location, if you know it, and enter any part of the name to see what records.

US Federal Census by Years

There is also a link above the table that shows the headers for each census, which is very helpful for those earlier ones that are just columns of numbers, usually without the headers.

Comments

Even though you have 'searched' for the census, selecting the Collections tab when Results are shown, gives you the option to review all other items, also