In this March 30, 2012, photo, Verla Morris, who will turn 100 later this year, poses for a photograph as she goes through some of her family census data from the 19th and 20th centuries at her local ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Personal details of 132 million people will be disclosed on Monday as the U.S. government releases the 1940 census to the public for the first time after 72 years of privacy protection ...

NEW YORK -- The newly released 1940 U.S. census is such a digital smash that it took a day for the website hosting it to get up to speed after tens of millions of hits almost paralyzed it. The ...

NEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) - Actress Ginger Rogers won an Oscar, McDonald's opened its first restaurant, there were only 48 U.S. states, and the average annual salary was $1,299. Sign up here. The ...

In 1940, workers showed off a new machine that would speed up the compilation of statistics from the census. The full, detailed report from a given census isn't released until 72 years later, so Dan ...

Like many of those who inhabited Schenectady’s Goosehill neighborhood, Nancy Duci was struggling to make ends meet in April 1940. The 45-year-old homemaker was widowed and living on public assistance.

Robert Siegel talks with Susan Cooper, head of publicity for the National Archives, about Monday's system crash as the result of people trying to... Rush For 1940 Census Data Jams Archives' Website ...

The National Archives and Records Administration on Monday (April 2) will release the 1940 U.S. Census records in their entirety, offering a treasure trove of information to genealogists, researchers ...

NEW YORK (AP) – When the 1940 census records are released Monday, Verla Morris can consider herself a part of living history. Morris, who is in her 100th year, will get to experience the novelty of ...

ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 1 – This photo provided by the University of Texas at Arlington Library shows an image of a poster used for promotional efforts during the 1940 Census. Many questions of the ...