February 24, 2023 The Decennial U.S. Censuses are often called a snapshot of a moment in time. The censuses were designed to count every resident in the entire country. As such they give genealogists and other researchers a glimpse of those residents’ lives at a particular time and place. This week that moment in …
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Finding Family in the 1950 Census
April 15, 2022 The 1950 census has been available for a couple of weeks now. So far, I’ve found my own family, both sets of grandparents and many of my aunts and uncles. My own family was fairly easy to find. I knew we lived in the small Utah town of South Weber in …
The Increasing Importance of 20th Century Records
October 8, 2021 Most of us who began our genealogy decades ago spend less time on 20th century research than we do on earlier periods. After all, for many of us, the mid-20th century and forward is part of our own memories. Why should we spend time researching it? I got a wake up call …