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Goverman said the Election Commission needs the residency information to complete the annual "street list" of Cambridge residents, a census of Cambridge's population...
...Visit one of the eleven regional branches of the National Archives (or its parent temple in Washington). This federal service has invaluable census records dating back to 1790, military and pension records from American wars beginning with the Revolutionary, passenger lists of immigrant ships, passport applications, naturalization records, land and bounty claims and much more. The Library of Congress (no branches) has a rich lode of 30,000 American and foreign genealogies. The D.A.R.'s Washington headquarters also has extensive records...
...Washington requesting information have tripled, to 2,300 a week; applications for permits to use the research facilities have jumped by 40%, to 560 a week. Most blacks, however, may not be able to trace their family trees before the Civil War. One reason: until 1870 the federal census listed most blacks by age and sex but not by name. Free blacks were an exception, but they were not very numerous. Some won their freedom through service in the Revolutionary War; nobody knows the precise number, but there were at least 5,000 who fought with the patriots...
...slaves, was not elaborate. It was really very simple. But it was the story around which whole generations coalesced. It kept us together. It made us proud of who we were and from where we had come." Haley asked a clerk in the microfilm room for the 1870 census records of Alamance County, N.C., where his forebears had lived. As he recalls the day, "It became sort of a mystical experience, turning those reels of film." But after a couple of eye-straining hours, he got up to leave. "As I walked out through the genealogical reading room, I noticed...
...middle-class Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Ill., like many middle-class suburbs of many turbulent U.S. cities, has a zoning law that forbids apartment buildings or any other form of multifamily housing in many parts of the village. Not entirely coincidentally, the 1970 census showed that the town contained 64,857 whites and 27 blacks...