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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following release is being issued by the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO) What: The U.S. Census Bureau will brief the media on the 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment. The experiment was among the largest quantitative efforts ever done for race and Hispanic origin research, and this important research is part of the Census Bureau's...

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 2007 Enterprise Statistics -- New statistics showing the industrial specialization and diversification of U.S. businesses are now available from the Census Bureau's Enterprise Statistics Program. In developing a complete series of reports to be published with the 2012 Economic Census results, Census Bureau researchers have created an Enterprise Classification System and prototype tables based on the 2007 Business Register. The...

MONTEREY, Calif., June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Monterey, California based singer/songwriter Ann Kelly and her indie label October Daze Records announce that the second full length video from her debut 6-track recording 'Petals and Thorns' is now available on YouTube for the song "Undone Without You." The first song from the album to be supported by an accompanying video, "Who Do You Think You're Foolin'," received significant airplay on trend-setting KPIG FM, as has the second...

NEW YORK, June 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Two-time Academy Award-winning actor, Kevin Spacey tonight attended a spectacular event at Highline Stages in New York City for the premiere of The Ventriloquist, the winning US film from the Trigger Street Productions Presents Jameson First Shot(TM) competition. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please visit: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/56650-kevin-spacey-the-ventriloquist-jameson-first-shot The Ventriloquist...

WASHINGTON, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Census Bureau released today results from its post-enumeration survey, providing a measure of the accuracy of the 2010 Census. The results found that the 2010 Census had a net overcount of 0.01 percent, meaning about 36,000 people were overcounted in the census. This sample-based result, however, was not statistically different from zero. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO) The post-enumeration...

Upcoming 2010 Census WASHINGTON, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following tip sheet was released today by the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO ) 2010 Census Coverage Measurement Results -- The Census Bureau will brief the media on the release of 2010 Census Coverage Measurement results at a news conference at George Washington University. These results provide one way of analyzing the quality of the 2010 Census counts...

NEW YORK, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Denise Richards, along with renowned hair stylist Cristophe, will appear live on multichannel retailer ShopNBC (www.shopnbc.com) Saturday, May 19 during the network's Summer Beauty Day Event to present Denise Richards Volume Extend by Cristophe. As an actress and mother, Denise Richards wanted a hair care line that was not only good for her and her daughters' health, but had amazing styling capabilities as well. Partnering with international...

Step-by-Step Guide to Family Research at the National Archives WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Foundation for the National Archives announces the publication of the Genealogy Tool Kit: Getting Started on Your Family History at the National Archives, written by National Archives genealogy archives specialist John P. Deeben. This 160-page step-by-step guide was published by the Foundation and launched in April 2012 to coincide with the celebration of...

LONDON, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- findmypast.co.uk, a leading UK family history website, has published online for the very first time parish records held by the City of Westminster Archives Centre. The Westminster Collection at findmypast.co.uk comprises fully searchable transcripts and scanned images of the parish registers, some of which are over 400 years old. The 1,365,731 records launched cover the period 1538-1945 and come from over 50 Westminster churches...

Millions of people who tried accessing the 1940 Census records on Monday were unable to because the popularity of the information weighed down its servers too much. The National Archives and Records Administration said that in the first three hours of launching the Census, it had 22.5 million hits on the site. "We're a victim of our own success," National Archives and Records Administration spokeswoman Susan Cooper told the Los Angeles Times. CBS News reported that those users who...