genealogy sleuths, historians and the merely curious can dig through those 1950 census forms, the first to be unveiled in a searchable format. The records are released by the National Archives 72 ...

It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some ...

This image taken from microfilm and provided by Ancestry.com shows a 1940 U.S. Census ledger page that includes an entry for Jacqueline Bouvier. Boubier, who became Jacqueline Kennedy when she married ...

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It is now easy to access information on individuals from that census, but beware of misspelled names. By Michael Wines The National Archives and Records Administration posted millions of records from ...

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It's a rule that many genealogists plan their lives around. Once a decade, the U.S. Census Bureau tries to gather the names, home addresses and other details of every person living in the country for ...

Finding a long-lost uncle’s name on a census form or discovering that Grandpa identified himself as a mural painter: It’s the stuff genealogists and history hunters live for. It also creates the kind ...

On the morning of April 1, 1950, thousands of U.S. Census-takers fanned out across Oregon to count its approximately 1.5 million residents. One enumerator stopped at a farm outside Monroe, Oregon — ...