{"id":501488,"date":"2010-04-01T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=8168"},"modified":"2010-04-01T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:50:47","slug":"april-1-has-been-the-federal-census-day-for-the-past-80-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/501488","title":{"rendered":"April 1 has been the Federal Census Day for the Past 80 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s April 1. This is the Federal Census Day. That&#8217;s a rare occurrence in America. It&#8217;s only happened 23 times thus far, the first being in 1790 (that was before I was born).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The census days have been as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1790: August 2 (first Monday in August)<\/li>\n<li>1800: August 4 (first Monday in August)<\/li>\n<li>1810: August 6 (first Monday in August)<\/li>\n<li>1820: August 7  (first Monday in August)<\/li>\n<li>1830: June 1<\/li>\n<li>1840: June 1<\/li>\n<li>1850: June 1<\/li>\n<li>1860:  June 1<\/li>\n<li>1870:  June 1<\/li>\n<li>1880: June 1<\/li>\n<li>1890: June 1<\/li>\n<li>1900: June 1<\/li>\n<li>1910: April 15<\/li>\n<li>1920: January 1<\/li>\n<li>1930: April 1<\/li>\n<li>1940: April 1<\/li>\n<li>1950: April 1<\/li>\n<li>1960: April 1<\/li>\n<li>1970: April 1<\/li>\n<li>1970: April 1<\/li>\n<li>1990: April 1<\/li>\n<li>2000: April 1<\/li>\n<li>2010: April 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that the National Archives release of the 1940 Census Records is scheduled for April 2, 2012 &#8211; 72 years following the census day of April 1, 1940. April 1 itself falls on a Sunday in 2012. Your grandkids can view that 2010 census form you just filled out on April 1, 2082.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s April 1. This is the Federal Census Day. That&#8217;s a rare occurrence in America. It&#8217;s only happened 23 times thus far, the first being in 1790 (that was before I was born). The census days have been as follows: 1790: August 2 (first Monday in August) 1800: August 4 (first Monday in August) 1810: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}