A sort of national treasure is scheduled to be revealed Monday: In April 1940, 120,000 census takers spread out across America to take an inventory of its residents. Now that the legally mandated 72 ...

Editor’s Note: Michael S. Snow is a historian on the history staff of the U.S. Census Bureau. A reporter last week asked me if many people cared about the release of individual records from the 1940 ...

Individual-level records from the 1940 Census have been released by the National Archives for the first time, unlocking a digital treasure chest for people researching their family histories. When ...

(CNN) — Personal, historic details of more than 132 million people were released online through the 1940 Census Monday, providing the public with free access to a slice of American history. The ...

Data from 72 years ago will be online Monday, letting us look at life in U.S. back then In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, a poster for the 1940 Census ...

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Finding a long-lost uncle’s name on a census form or discovering that Grandpa identified himself as a mural painter: It’s the stuff genealogists and history hunters live for. It also creates the kind ...

With a few key strokes at 6 a.m. Monday, a Silicon Valley engineer will open the lid on a treasure for genealogy buffs and local historians: the long-hidden personal records of 132 million Americans ...

Former Vancouver Mayor John P. Kiggins was nearly in the last year of his life on April 2, 1940, when census taker Myrtle E. Ackley, a widow who lived in the same downtown Vancouver neighborhood, ...

With the help of online volunteers, the National Archives and Records Administration and leading genealogy groups are turning the 1940 US Census into an easy to search database. With the help of ...