Q While going through the 1880 census records in Hart County, Georgia, I discovered an aunt of mine, who was 32 years old at the time. One column on the census record asked the condition of the ...

Their names are like a who’s who of American history: William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, John. D. Rockefeller, Booker T. Washington, Louisa May Alcott, ...

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 ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has released a CD-ROM of the 1880 U.S. census, a new tool to help people trying to find out about their family roots. It was no small task. In a news ...

A mere $49 will buy you 56 CDs from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But rather than containing music, these CDs carry more than 5 million names, making up the Church''s new release of ...

1890 - The U.S. Constitution mandates a census, or headcount, of the country's population every ten years. When the Constitution was written, the main reason for the census was to know the number of ...

My maternal second great-grandmother was named Sarah Riddick, born around 1862 in Washington County, N.C. Records show that she worked as a servant for L.B. Davis and his wife, Annie E. Davis. I would ...