The 1880 census represented a change from all federal censuses that came before it and was perhaps the first “modern” census. Unlike the 1790-1870 censuses, which were under the jurisdiction of the ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has released a CD-ROM of the 1880 U.S. census, a new tool to help people trying to find out about their family roots. It was no small task. In a news ...

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” ...

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Alabama was a sparsely populated wilderness by the time the first census was taken of the territory in 1800. The long parade of Census numbers since then spins intriguing stories of yearning, tragedy, ...