Posts about census records from the United States, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, and Germany, including finding and interpreting census records.
Where we came from in the United States...and where we went is the subject of today's post. These infographics from the New York Times illustrate domestic migration from 1900 through 2012. You know I love a good set of interactive [...]
Today's post is about mapping 1890 German ancestry in the U.S. There are more Americans of German extraction living in this country today than any other ethnicity. At least seven million German natives emigrated [...]
Direct Me NYC 1940 marries the 1940 census with the digitized phone books of all five boroughs of New York City. The user unites the two sets of data with the help of Steve Morse's One-Step [...]
Joseph and Mabel Libby in Barnsdall, Oklahoma – finding them without the index in the 1940 census has made me very happy. So now I've found my husband’s grandparents, whom he never knew, in [...]
