A census enumerator's records from the 1790 census, the first-ever to be conducted in the United States. National Archives. August 2, 1790: the first Census Day, when brave enumerators went out on ...

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 ...

→ The 1790 census costs $44,000, or 1.1 cents per capita; the final report is 56 pages long. The director is Thomas Jefferson, and six questions are asked.. → As set out in Article 1, Section ...

Since 1790, the decennial census has played a crucial role in creating and reshaping the ever-changing views of racial and ethnic identity in the United States.

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 ...

LEWISBURG — Historian Bruce Teeple will speak at 2 p.m. Feb. 10 at the 1793 Dale/Engle/Walker House, 1471 Strawbridge Road, Lewisburg. The program, “The 1790 Census: What It Says and ...

Data for census years from 1790 through 1850 are sourced from the 1850 report, in which an extra analysis was done to reevaluate the older data; data for the Chinese, Japanese and “Other ...

The U.S. Census Bureau announced April 26 that the country's population between 2010 and 2020 had experienced its second-slowest rate of growth in U.S. history, topping out at 331 million people.

Racial categories, which have been included on every U.S. census since the first one in 1790, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times. It was not until ...

From the moment of the first American census, in 1790, through every decennial census we've had since, the categories the U.S. government has used to classify its residents have included the word ...