The U.S. Census recognizes birth or naturalization as the avenues to citizenship. “Citizenship,” the Census declares to this day, is defined not by how long your family has lived here but where you ...

Is ancestry history? The U.S. Census Bureau is contemplating getting rid of a question about a person’s ancestry on its most comprehensive survey, saying it may duplicate a newly-revised race question ...

Back in 1930, Tom Hanks' grandfather chased squirrels for a living, Walt Disney lived in an $8,000 Los Angeles home, and Elvis Presley's family didn't own a radio. These are just a few tidbits one can ...

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Some of the newspaper articles describe the buying and selling of enslaved people, while others offer rewards for the return of runaways. Ancestry Thanks to the rise of commercial genealogy platforms, ...

Seventy-two years ago, someone knocked on your ancestor's door and asked them a series of questions. Friday, all of that information will be at your fingertips. So break out the family tree and ...

For Ancestry.com, big data is about to get even bigger. The subscription-based website for finding long-lost relatives already has 6.7 billion historical records and 4.8 billion people named in family ...

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It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - New census data released this week shows an increasing number of U.S. residents identify themselves as "American" when asked for their ancestry. And in counties where the "American" ...

FILE - An envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident sits on a desk on on April 5, 2020, in Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau is contemplating getting rid of a question about a ...