Four decades after being brought into this world, I learned that I was, in fact, white. I discovered my official racial status while training to be an enumerator for the 2010 U.S. census. According to ...

I received the census form in the mail last week, and I was ready. A vaguely admonitory letter from the Census Bureau had arrived the week before, urging me to fill out the form because the results ...

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 ...