The U.S. Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census has always been charged with political significance and continues to be. That’s clear ...

From its origins to its cultural influence today, this is how IBM helped shape America as one of the nation’s most iconic ...

The US Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census has always been charged with political significance, and continues to be. That’s clear ...

Unreadable microfilm, burned courthouses, misspelled names, spilled ink on your census page – these are just some of the calamities that face genealogists in their pursuit of family data. But there is ...

The US Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census has always been charged with political significance, and continues to be. That’s clear ...

As genealogists eagerly await release of the U.S. Census of 1950 (due out in April, 2022), let’s take another of our occasional looks at a key census of the past. Today, we’ll examine the “vanished” ...

Possiblity of a reconsideration of that part of the Johnson Immigration Bill which fixes as a basis for quotas the 1890 census, increases daily. It now appears that the House Immigration Committee has ...

Genealogists lament the loss of many records throughout the country’s history, and none more than the 1890 census. The story of how it was lost is one of tragedy and perhaps incompetence. Before it ...