Have you ever meet a tinsmith, cooper, limeburner, trader, or stone mason? No? You are not alone! These professions, once common in 1850s Cape Girardeau County, have become extinct or extremely rare.

One of the “firsts” initiated with the 1850 federal census was the creation of a distinctive questionnaire called the mortality schedule. This was a special “nonpopulation” census inventory that ...

When she first saw the page, at home on her computer, Allison Seyler stopped. “It was a jarring moment,” she said, one that forced her to pause and think about what she was looking at. It was an 1850 ...

Censuses date back to the mid-18th century when the majority of western countries started keeping detailed records of their populations to assist with planning for the future. The first U.S. census ...

The congressional guidelines for the 1860 census were the same as for the 1850 census. The census day was June 1, 1860, and the “census year” included the 12 months preceding census day. The census ...

Editor’s note: The following information was taken from the book “50th Anniversary of the Port Lavaca Wave,” by Bobby Joe Paul. The book published about 70 years ago. In 1850 Port Lavaca was known ...

Census categories for race and ethnicity have shaped how the nation sees itself. Here’s how they have changed over the last 230 years. By K.K. Rebecca Lai and Jennifer Medina Oct. 16, 2023 Since 1790, ...