The Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society library has reopened after a long COVID-related shutdown. However, at least for the foreseeable future, hours will be limited to 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on ...

In 1880, abolitionist and author Frederick Douglass lived at Cedar Hill, his house in Anacostia, with his first wife and four granddaughters. His census form listed his race as "mulatto," his age as ...

Statistician and inventor Herman Hollerith became known as the father of modern automatic computation for his electric tabulating system, which revolutionized the US census. He was recruited to work ...

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Alabama was a sparsely populated wilderness by the time the first census was taken of the territory in 1800. The long parade of Census numbers since then spins intriguing stories of yearning, tragedy, ...