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Anyone conducting family history research for people alive on June 1, 1900 will find that the 1900 census is among the most valuable of all the U.S. Census ever taken. This is especially true since the destruction of the 1890 census leaves many genealogists with a 20 year gap during a pe...
Old newspaper records are one of the best substitutes for the 1890 census, which was destroyed in a fire in the 1930s. The absence of this census is often frustrating to genealogists. But, there are a number of alternate sources you can use to fill in th
No one knows for sure what happened to them, but the prevailing theory holds that they were destroyed when British forces torched Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812. More than 99 percent of the 1890 census records are also gone, the result of a 1921 fire at the Commerce ...
The history of vital statistics and census-taking in nineteenth-century, USA, was largely determined by the federal Constitution of 1787. By its decree that the number of Representatives in Congress be proportional to the population size of each state, the decennial census from 1790 onwards was ...
This tool automatically updates for future releases and lags a quarter behind (due to the US Census Bureau's release timing.) Homeownership in the United States The United States has, for better or worse, increased its overall homeownership ratesignificantlyfrom the turn of the 20th century. That...
The first U.S. Census that commenced on August 2, 1790 included a record of the race of individuals. It used three categories: “free whites”, “all other free persons”, and “slaves”. Since that time, racial categories as defined for the U.S. Census have been a recurring controvers...
Thanks to your Freudian slip, we now know you, specifically, are a supporter of “killing Jesus” — that is, Christianity — as indicated by your name. By the way, nice how your white genocide is matched by census statistics in the US — but your genocidal dictators have abolished ...
US censuses records up until1940are available to the public (with the exception of the 1890 census, most of which was destroyed in a fire in the1930s— though small snippets of it survived and are available for public use). The 1950 census will be released to the public in April of ...
Linking individuals across census records over time is crucial for addressing many economic questions, but typically relies on similarities in name, year and place of birth, gender, and race due to the lack of unique identifiers. The performance of linking algorithms has been widely examined, as ...