MIDDLEBORO — Most people think of Middleboro as a quiet town. But the municipality was once one of the largest settlements in the early United States. According to data from the 1790 United States ...

If you take a beginning genealogy course you will often learn, as I did many years ago, that the 1790 census was destroyed by fire when the British invaded Washington D.C., during the War of 1812. But ...

As we genealogists await the release of the U.S. Census of 1940, just six months away, let’s take another of our occasional looks at a census of the past – this time the very first one, 1790. We’ve ...

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The debate over the citizenship question is just the latest controversy that has surrounded the questionnaire since it began in 1790. That first census only asked if respondents were ...

On Aug. 1, 1790 — 235 years ago Friday — the first Constitutionally-mandated U.S. Census was completed. While those of us who love data enjoy poring over the results of each decade’s census, the ...

In response to the May 10 column by Ted Diadiun, “Census questions not up to liberal judges:" The 1790 census taken after the founding of our country called for the name of the head of the family and ...

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