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” ...

Barring unexpected events, the Johnson Bill for a two percent quota on the basis of the 1890 census, in its latest form, number 7995, will, probably, come up for consideration and vote on Tuesday of ...

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 ...

Since 1790 the Federal Government has taken a census every 10 years, and every 10 years the large cities complain their number of residents has been undercounted. In 1890, New York City believed the ...

In April, the Supreme Court began to hear arguments about one of the central requirements of the Constitution. It’s right there, in Article I, Section 2, clause 3: For a government of the people to ...