As the Courier shifts its focus to provide heavier coverage of quality-of-life issues in the Cobb County, including transportation and the environment, we’re expanding and repurposing some of the census-related…
This is a reworking of an article we published last September after the U.S. Census Bureau posted a set of instructions on how to use this fascinating tool. So much…
Here’s a guide to using the recently release 1950 individual census records for Smyrna. In a previous Cobb by the Numbers we looked at the release of the complete individual…
If you’ve ever done genealogical or historical research, you’re probably familiar with the handwritten photocopies of reports on individual households scrawled on standardized sheets by census takers. They are often…
Cobb County is no stranger to disasters. We had major flooding in 2009, and last September we were slammed with floods that were serious enough to make residents eligible for…