One of the “firsts” initiated with the 1850 federal census was the creation of a distinctive questionnaire called the mortality schedule. This was a special “nonpopulation” census inventory that ...

The federal mortality schedules are research tools that family genealogists don’t always think about. Mortality schedules were included on the 1850 through the 1880 census as separate sections. They ...

The number and percentage of people in the US dying while homeless has increased in recent years. However, information about the causes of death most prevalent among this population, and about how ...