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What if you had a window into the history of your family? With historical records, you do. From home life to career, records help bring your relatives' experiences into focus. There were 700 people named Pospisil in the 1930 U.S. Census. In 1940, there were 5% less people named Pospisil in the United States. What was life like for them?

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In 1940, 665 people named Pospisil were living in the United States. In a snapshot:

  • 4% were disabled
  • 98% rented out rooms to boarders
  • On average men worked 48 hours a week

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As Pospisil families continued to grow, they left more tracks on the map:

  • The most common mother tongue was Slovak
  • 73 migrated within the United States from 1935 to 1940
  • 371 were first-generation Americans
  • Most immigrants originated from Czechoslovakia