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Industry

Industry

People by century: organized lists and source notes

People by century: which date puts someone in a bucket, why historians avoid calendar centuries, and why every century looks busier than the one before.

Industry

People by US city data: sources, fields and accuracy checks

People by US city data: what a geocoder actually returns, why failed matches pile into clusters, and why a postal code is a route rather than an area.

Industry

People by US city directory: what to know and why

People by US city directory: how the book was actually compiled, whose absence means nothing, and which sections researchers almost never open.

Industry

People by US state by year: an organized year-by-year guide

People by US state by year: six things that move an annual count, why both ends of the chart mislead, and how to tell a flow of records from a stock.