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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 6, 2012 - 12:18 pm
Above: A 1940 U.S. Census record from Margaretville, New York, posted on Ancestry.com. On the highlighted lines are Sheldon and Madeline Birdsall and their daughter Dawn, the writer's great-grandparents and grandmother.
A treasure trove has just been... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 4:17 pm
Photo by Flickr user tlindenbaum.
Rural areas are going the way of the dodo, if you believe yesterday's Associated Press story about "the decline of small-town America." The article begins with a stark statistic from the 2010 Census:
Rural America now... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 3, 2011 - 9:55 pm
Detail of an interactive map from the New York Times, showing change of population between the 2000 and 2010 Census. According to the Census Bureau, a census tract including most of Saugerties (the darker brown area at center) lost 13.7 percent of its... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 1:37 pm
The image above is a detail from a map from the USDA, showing growth and decline in farming between 2002 and 2007. Each red dot represents 20 farms lost during those five years; each blue dot is for 20 new farms.
What are Massachusetts and Connecticut... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 2, 2010 - 11:52 am
With the 2010 Census coming up, Bovina historian Ray LaFever takes a look back at the 1910 Census, and sees some familiar names among the town's 912 listed residents.
Grace Coulter, who later married Dave Roberts and lived on Maple Avenue, was less than a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 2:11 pm
Great piece in the Times Herald-Record today on the debate over how New York State should count prisoners. Currently, they're counted where they're imprisoned, not where they're originally from, a practice that artificially inflates upstate districts with... Read more
