A mere $49 will buy you 56 CDs from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But rather than containing music, these CDs carry more than 5 million names, making up the Church''s new release of ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has released a CD-ROM of the 1880 U.S. census, a new tool to help people trying to find out about their family roots. It was no small task. In a news ...

1890 - The U.S. Constitution mandates a census, or headcount, of the country's population every ten years. When the Constitution was written, the main reason for the census was to know the number of ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Wednesday Oct. 23 that the entire 1880 U.S. Census, the 1881 British Census and the 1881 Canadian Census will be accessible free of charge on ...

Note: For a more recent overview of the Census Bureau’s history of asking about religion, read this April 2023 article. The U.S. Census Bureau has not asked questions about religion since the 1950s, ...

1890: The U.S. Census Bureau uses a tabulating machine for the first time. Freed of the laborious process of hand-sorting its data, the bureau is able to produce a complete census within two years.