Stand up and be counted. In a few weeks, the U.S. Census Bureau will start sending forms for the 2020 census. Last month, the Census Bureau announced it’s added a write-in area for the “White” category so that participants can provide their “origins.”

Thanks in part to his nearly ve years of reporting on ancestry records, The US World Herald’s Joe Battaglia was one of ten journalists invited by Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham to tour the New York ofce which covers Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, and Vermont.