Census Information for Watertown & Oakville, CT
Most people use either the US National Archives or the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormons) as the source of microfilms of the US Census.
The location of Nat. Archives & Records Admin. record centers can be found at their site:
You may also rent copies of the films directly or through a local library. For more info see:
Your nearest LDS - FHC (Family History Center) can be found using their search page at:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp
You can rent films for use at the FHC. When ordering census microfilms at the LDS-FHC, you need to know which film covers the locality you are interested in. For Watertown/Oakville, CT; here are some of the film numbers. It is often difficult to know which film to order as they are listed by the county and census Enumeration District and not by the local town or city.
| Year | LDS Film Number | Enumeration District | Sheets | Comment |
| 1790 | On Line Here | |||
| 1860 | ||||
| 1870 | ||||
| 1880 | The LDS has this year on CDs at the churches. | On Line Here | ||
| 1890 | Burned in a fire in the Commerce Dept. Bldg. - Not Available for Connecticut | |||
| 1900 |
1240141 |
ED 262 | Sheets 1A to 22A | |
| " | " | ED 263 | Sheets 1A to 10B | West of Straits Turnpike |
| 1910 | 1374148 | ED 283 | Sheets 1A to 28B | |
| " | " | ED 284 | Sheets 1A to 12B | |
| 1920 | 1820187 | ED 227 | Sheets 1A to 48B | East side of Wtn. |
| " | " | ED 228 | Sheets 1A to 14A | West side of Wtn. |
| 1930 | 2340005 | ED 3-47 | Oakville Fire District | |
| " | " | ED 3-48 | Watertown Fire District | |
| " | " | ED 3-49 | Wtn. excluding fire districts | |
The
Soundex system is a method of indexing names in the 1880, 1900, 1910, and
1920 US
Census. Soundex can also aid genealogists by identifying spelling variations for
a given
surname.
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