The Census of 1790 recorded the population of the entire United States as of August 2, 1790, and it has been taken every ten years since this date. This first census documented the population to ...

Knock, knock. Who's there? The census taker. The census taker who? No, really, this is no joke. It's the census taker. "Snapshot of America" Super Bowl ads were followed by letters alerting tha… ...

The US Census bureau is gearing up for next year’s count. The government’s been counting Americans for more than two centuries. The very first US Census was in 1790. Commerce Secretary Gary ...

This is a year in which the presidential election is held, but it is also the year of the decennial census. While U.S. presidents are elected every four years, the national census is taken every 10… ...

The first census in 1790 had only six questions, and counted males and females as free whites, other free persons, and slaves. From then until 1860--the last census before the Civil War--these ...

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 ...

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 U.S. Census Bureau has been staffing up across the country and Vermont to undertake the decennial (that means every 10 years) count.. The count which will officially start on April 1, 2020, is ...

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 ...