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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 381 people named Cotta in the 1930 U.S. Census. In 1940, there were 8% more people named Cotta in the United States. What was life like for them?

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In 1940, 410 people named Cotta were living in the United States. In a snapshot:

  • On average men worked 45 hours a week
  • 2% reported their race as other than white
  • 100% rented out rooms to boarders
  • 135 were children

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

  • Most immigrants originated from Azores
  • 184 were first-generation Americans
  • 77 migrated within the United States from 1935 to 1940
  • They most commonly lived in Rhode Island