Carol Stetser
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1950 Census: A Moment in Time
February 24, 2023 The Decennial U.S. Censuses are often called a snapshot of a moment in time. The censuses were designed to count every resident in the entire country. As such they give genealogists and other researchers a glimpse of those residents’ lives at a particular time and place. This week that moment in …
The Pale Blue Eye
February 17, 2023 The Pale Blue Eye is a mystery thriller movie. It stars Christian Bale as a retired detective who is hired in 1830 to solve a series of gruesome murders at the United States Military Academy. He is aided by a young cadet, who will go on to become the world-famous author Edgar …
The 1900 Census
February 10, 2023 Census records are an American genealogist’s best resource. Censuses in the U.S. have been taken every ten years since 1790, and most of them still exist. The censuses through 1950 are all digitized and indexed and readily found on various genealogical websites. Each of the censuses varies in the information it …