Since the first farmers tilled the soil more than 10,000 years ago, the plow has been the essential tool of human survival.

Volunteers of the 1870 census project are taking every name on the census record and adding an identifier number to FamilySearch.

The census is mandated by the US Constitution. “The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term ...