Alabama’s first-ever Census as a state got badly bungled. A series of letters written in that long-ago time, one by a future U.S. president, leave no doubt that this is true. Is the “official ...

The fourth census of the United States, the 1820, made several changes to the format of the previous three enumerations and represented, up to that time, the census that asked ...

The U.S. government asked about citizenship for 130 years — from 1820 to 1950 — as part of the decennial “short form” census and continued to do so in the “long form” survey ...

Here at the courthouse, we can uncover interesting tidbits of information in various types of records. The records can shed ...