Welcome to the Reconstructed 1890 Census for Greene County, MO.  This database of information was manually compiled by many Ozarks Genealogical Society (OGS) volunteers, over a four year period.  There were two phases to the process.  First we transcribed names from local 1890 records.  The second phase was to evaluate the names we had gathered, attempt to combine any duplicate names into a single record, and then we compared those names to the census records for 1880 and 1900.  When we could identify a family that had existed in either the census before and/or after 1890, we added those spouses and children to our database. 
     The result of our effort is an 1890 Greene County Census of 22,369 names.  Unfortunately, we may still have some duplicate names listed because of the local documents we used for the initial transcription.  The tax list more often used initials, and other documents used full names and it was not always possible to definitively combine records.  
     Before the original 1890 Census burned in 1921, it was reported that Greene County, MO had a resident count of 48,616, which was approximately 20,000 more people than in 1880.  During this late 1800's timeframe, the birth and growth of the westward expansion of the railroad is obvious in Greene County.  In the initial step of transcribing the city and county directories, it was apparent that a lot of citizens worked for the railroad, and they probably had families that lived that nomadic lifestyle with them.  A lot of those reported individuals could not be found in the 1880 nor 1900 Greene County census records, and therefore we were not able to round out a full household for that reported individual. 
     We hope that our efforts will prove to enhance your research.