The original 1890 census enumerated people differently than ever before that time. Each family was enumerated on a separate sheet of paper. 1890 was the only year this was done.
Additional Information
The only surviving fragments are as follows:
Alabama—Perry County
District of Columbia—Q, S, 13th, 14th, RQ, Corcoran, 15th, SE, and
Roggs streets, and Johnson Avenue
Georgia—Muscogee County (Columbus)
Illinois—McDonough County: Mound Township
Minnesota—Wright County: Rockford
New Jersey—Hudson County: Jersey City
New York—Westchester County: Eastchester; Suffok County: Brookhaven
Township
North Carolina—Gaston County: South Point Township, Ricer Bend Township;
Cleveland County: Township No. 2
Ohio—Hamilton County (Cincinnati); Clinton County: Wayne Township
South Dakota—Union County: Jefferson Township
Texas—Ellis County: S.P. no. 6, Mountain Peak, Ovila Precinct; Hood
County: Precinct no. 5; Rusk County: Precinct no. 6 and J.P. no. 7; Trinity
County: Trinity Town and Precinct no. 2; Kaufman County: Kaufman.
Fields in this database include: given name, surname, relationship,
race, gender, age, birthplace, father's birthplace, and mother's birthplace.
If you cannot find your family in this database, it may be useful to look
at Ancestry.com's 1890 Census Subsitute.
[This information comes from Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves
Luebking, eds. "Research in Census Records." The Source: A Guidebook of
American Genealogy, rev. ed. Ancestry, Inc.: Salt Lake City, 1997.]