The need for adequate historical migration data in order to examine the economic social political and demographic development of the United States is discussed. The author explains an approach to the data problem that links families sampled from manuscript schedules of the 1860 census with the 1850 census by means of state-level indexes of household heads....The approach proposed in this paper has the following advantages: widespread coverage of the population; inclusion of socioeconomic information from the manuscript schedules of the federal census; geographic resolution of origin and destination at the county level; geographic coverage of all regions; and measurement of gross as well as net flows. Limitations of the proposed method are outlined. (EXCERPT)
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Richard H. Steckel (1988) studied this question.