The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, From the Ancient World to the Modern Age, by Andrew Whitby, Basic Books, 368 pages, $30 The census is almost as old as the state itself: ...

After months of headlines, presidential tweets and a Supreme Court decision, the 2020 Census will not ask people about their citizenship status. President Donald Trump and his advisers tried to add ...

At the beginning of April, all Americans will be asked to participate in a special event that takes places once every 10 years: the census. The nation will be examining and tabulating the sizes and ...

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In tracing the blood line of her maternal grandmother, Martha Collins has gone six generations deep — back to 1870. In that year’s census — the first after the abolition of slavery — the Seattle woman ...

The United States is currently undertaking its population census, the once-a-decade effort to count every single person living here. More than 150 other countries will join in this world census ...

Finding a long-lost uncle’s name on a census form or discovering that Grandpa identified himself as a mural painter: It’s the stuff genealogists and history hunters live for. It also creates the kind ...

It's a rule that many genealogists plan their lives around. Once a decade, the U.S. Census Bureau tries to gather the names, home addresses and other details of every person living in the country for ...