Genealogy 101: #18 Tips for Using the Census
By Gena Philibert-Ortega on May 9, 2017
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega provides search tips to help you find your ancestor in the U.S. census records... (Read More)
Tag: Census Records
A Genealogist’s Delight: Oddities and Curiosities of Early Censuses
By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on May 2, 2017
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak shares some interesting facts about our ancestors gleaned from the U.S. Census... (Read More)
Genealogy 101: #17 The 1940 U.S. Census
By Gena Philibert-Ortega on April 7, 2017
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega explains some of the new questions that were added to the 1940 U.S. Census, and gives information about that census... (Read More)
Genealogy Resource Partners: Newspapers & the Census
By Scott Phillips on May 14, 2014
Scott Phillips shows that combining research in old newspapers with records from the U.S. Census is a good genealogy strategy... (Read More)
Deciphering 19th Century Handwriting and Type in Records & Newspapers
By Thomas Jay Kemp on July 23, 2013
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp providing tips to help you decipher handwriting or newspaper type in old letters, wills, census records, and newspapers... (Read More)
1940 Census Taker Doesn’t Let 3 Vicious Dogs & 50 Stitches Stop Her
By Thomas Jay Kemp on July 3, 2012
An article about an enumerator for the 1940 U.S. Census, Alice Davis, who on 6 April 1940 became “the first census-taker casualty in northern California.”.. (Read More)
