Census Microfilm at the Pleasant Hill Library
The Pleasant Hill Library has Census microfilm for California only.
Contra Costa County
- 1860 Census: Contra Costa County (microfiche)
- 1930 Census: Contra Costa County (microfilm)
California (all counties)
- 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 Censuses (microfilm)
- 1852 California State Census (microfilm)
- 1880 Census: California Soundex (microfilm)
- 1900 Census: California Soundex (microfilm)
Other States
- 1790 Census: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia (microfilm)
- 1880 Census: Colorado (microfilm)
- 1900 Census Enumeration District Descriptions (microfilm)
- 1910 Census Enumeration District Descriptions: Alabama to Florida (microfilm
Microform reader printers are available for your convenience. Printing is $0.15 per page, nickels and dimes only.
Census Microfilm from the National Archives
Looking for census records for states other than California?
If you need microfilm for other states, you may want to inquire at a Church of Christ Latter-day Saints History Center or request the reels you need directly from the U.S. National Archives.
Microfilm Publications Available Through the National Archives Microfilm Rental Program
- Census Records
- 1790-1930
- 1790-1930
- Genealogical Revolutionary War Records
- New Freedmen's Bureau Records
Click here for more information on how to use the National Archives Microfilm Rental Program.
Microfilm may rented for as low as $2.50 a roll and then brought to the Pleasant Hill Library to be read on a microfilm reader.
The Contra Costa County Library fee-based interlibrary loan (ILL) service is being replaced by a free, self-service model called Link+ and the Library is no longer is able to interlibrary loan microfilm from the National Archives.
Printed Census Indexes in the Heritage Collection
To locate indexes or partial indexes in print to the decennial censuses
California Death Index
The Library also carries the California Death Index, 1905-1929, 1930-1939, and 1940-1990 (microform).
The California Death Index is from the State of California, Dept. of Health. Knowing a death date will help in searching U.S. Census records.
Census Help
- About the Census
Information from the National Archives - How to Use NARA's Census Microfilm Catalogs 1790-1930 Information from the National Archives
- Soundex Coding System The soundex is a coded surname (last name) index based on the way a surname sounds rather than the way it is spelled to help you locate the entry in the census.
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