MARTINEZ — Nearly one in nine residents of Contra Costa County was illiterate in 1910, and most were foreign-born men from Europe. So said the 13th U.S. census, a snapshot of a century ago. The census ...

Here’s how to approach an unrecognized or illegible notation, as well as missing information, in a record. I have come across the abbreviation “WS” in the column for “Place of birth” in the 1910 ...

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This one from The New York Daily News doesn’t get the blood boiling so much as it just seems odd. On the 2010 Census, one of the boxes checked for race is classified as Negro. Question No. 9 on this ...

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