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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...