That prompted the 1800 Census Act and the first official census on 10 March 1801. Most of the data has been lost. 1841: The Victorians were brilliant bureaucrats. They pioneered the census form ...

This is what the census form looked like in 1860 when the first ... records reflect what was happening in California in the mid 1800's, during the Gold Rush. "There is a lady who came as a ...