In today’s competitive and globalised world, I strongly favour a skill census over a caste census. By concentrating on finding, developing, and utilising the wide range of abilities within our ...

One of the frustrating things involving the early U.S. censuses (1790-1840) is that the members of the household aren’t named ...

By Nancy Battick In my last column I wrote about the challenges involved in researching the early censuses. One of the things that may strike researchers is how often the head of household was male.