The Ultimate Paper Trail

It is downright creepy how much personal info can be obtained from the Internet. Well, it just got a bit creepier when Ancestory.com created the first searchable database of Census records dating from 1790 to 1930. We thought this would be a nifty way to learn more about some media folk, but it’s not as easy as it seems — you try tracing Wolf Blitzer’s line back to the 1930 Census (no really, try and let us know).

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