In Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky, there were at least nine African American shoemakers when the census was taken in 1880.
Though nine was a small number, the African American shoemakers were the ...

CHICAGO – Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person’s remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the numbers 04985. The person died in 2015 ...

A Bellport man wanted information about his biological mother. A Jericho woman found out how much her grandfather earned in 1950. And an Amityville woman added to her knowledge of the lives of people ...

Henry G. Cisneros served four terms as the mayor of San Antonio. Elected in 1981, the San Antonio native rose to national prominence as President Clinton’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Country music legend Kenny Rogers was 11 years old in 1950 when a census taker came to his family's home in Houston's Fourth Ward. Rogers lived at the San Felipe Court Apartments in unit 1037 with his ...

A 3-year-old boy named Japperson W. Blythe was living in Hope in 1950, according to newly released census records. He would grow up to be president of the United States. Don't remember a president ...

Newly released records of the 1950 census now offer a glimpse into Louisiana and the nation's past , as the names, ages, addresses and occupations of respondents were released last week. Census ...

PHOENIX — By law, US Census records are kept secret for 72 years. So professional and amateur genealogists alike rejoiced when this past Friday all the records from the 1950 decennial census were ...

(CNN) — Close to 7 million records from the 1950 US census have been made public. The digital records were released on Friday and are available to the public free of charge at a dedicated website, ...

It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some ...