This collection of old newspaper headlines brings into focus the 1890 census feud between Minneapolis and St. Paul. This was an actual reprint of the headlines that appeared in a story by the ...

The inventor of punched cards, which led to the first computers and companies like IBM, was aiming to solve a gnarly problem at the time: data collection for the census. The U.S. Constitution requires ...

Possiblity of a reconsideration of that part of the Johnson Immigration Bill which fixes as a basis for quotas the 1890 census, increases daily. It now appears that the House Immigration Committee has ...

The census of 1890 as a basis for computation of immigration quotas was definitely rejected by the Senate Immigration Committee which opened its hearing on the proposed changes in the present ...

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 ...

Unreadable microfilm, burned courthouses, misspelled names, spilled ink on your census page – these are just some of the calamities that face genealogists in their pursuit of family data. But there is ...