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 ...

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” ...

On January 10, 1921 a fire in the basement of the Department of Commerce in downtown Washington, D.C., destroyed most of the 1890 census records. One reason the records could not be saved was that ...

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

The census of 1890 as a basis for computation of immigration quotas was definitely rejected by the Senate Immigration Committee which opened its hearing on the proposed changes in the present ...

The population of Aspen for 1880, its second year, is complicated because it was not an official town when the census was taken, but reports suggest that by the end of the year it had over 800 people ...

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 ...

Census categories for race and ethnicity have shaped how the nation sees itself. Here’s how they have changed over the last 230 years. By K.K. Rebecca Lai and Jennifer Medina Oct. 16, 2023 Since 1790, ...