Here’s how to approach an unrecognized or illegible notation, as well as missing information, in a record. I have come across the abbreviation “WS” in the column for “Place of birth” in the 1910 ...

This one from The New York Daily News doesn’t get the blood boiling so much as it just seems odd. On the 2010 Census, one of the boxes checked for race is classified as Negro. Question No. 9 on this ...

Spokane still was unwilling to accept the U.S. Census Bureau’s figures which showed a decrease in population from 1910 to 1920. In fact, the city’s Chamber of Commerce announced a “determined effort” ...

The U.S. Census Bureau announced April 26 that the country's population between 2010 and 2020 had experienced its second-slowest rate of growth in U.S. history, topping out at 331 million people.

Life is full of surprises. Who would have thought that my maternal grandmother, who arrived in New York from Italy in 1899 with $10 in her purse, had anything in common with Bertha Palmer, the ...

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