Title: Mexicans and Central and South Americans in the 1870 census
Description: Extracted from the original records of the National Archives Series M593, this index includes 39,670 entries for Mexican and Central and South American immigrants. Mexico (21,068), Cuba (2,838), and Chile (1,230) are the most prominent countries represented in Latin America, with many entries spread throughout the remainder of Central and South America. Significant numbers enumerated in the 1870 census listed the Caribbean Islands as their birthplace.
Subjects: Census, 9th, 1870, Hispanic Americans, Mexican Americans, Genealogy, Registers of births, Caribbean Americans, Indexes, Census, 1870
Places: United States