MARTINEZ — Nearly one in nine residents of Contra Costa County was illiterate in 1910, and most were foreign-born men from Europe. So said the 13th U.S. census, a snapshot of a century ago. The census ...

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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 ...

Vol. 24, No. 1, Papers presented at the forty-first annual meeting of the Business History Conference (Fall 1995), pp. 106-122 (17 pages) Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org) is the ...

Minnesota’s population has more than doubled in the last one hundred years. In 1910, the Census Bureau reported that the state had two million inhabitants. Now, 100 years later, the North Star state ...

Among the occupations of Windsor residents listed in the federal census for 1910 is that of "teamster." Today, truck driving more aptly describes the occupation title. However, in 1910 it likely ...

This catalog lists the 1910 population census schedules held by the National Archives and Records Service. "This catalog supplements the Federal population censuses ...

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TEL AVIV, Israel & LEHI, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the leading global service for family history and DNA testing, announced today the publication of three census collections from Norway, from ...