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 ...

genealogy sleuths, historians and the merely curious can dig through those 1950 census forms, the first to be unveiled in a searchable format. The records are released by the National Archives 72 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time, precisely 72 years after enumerators began knocking on the doors of some 46 million American houses and apartments, the federal government made public what they learned: ...

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