The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is seeking help to index records from the 1940 Census.The information gathered by the federal government for its decennial census is kept classified ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 1940 U.S. Census Community Project—a joint initiative between the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Archives.com, FamilySearch.org, findmypast.com, ...

The 1940 U.S. Census database of records was made accessible earlier this year. Information in the 1880 Census for Springfield is being expanded to include data on the city's Civil War veterans, many ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. We all have been hearing about the 1940 Federal Census becoming available at least in a limited ...

NEW YORK -- It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of ...

In less than two weeks, genealogists and historians will get their first chance to begin combing the 1940 U.S. census for more clues about what life was like in the early part of the past century. “It ...

Connie Erickson is looking for details of her great aunts and uncles. Terry Micks is looking for her parents. They and other members of the La Crosse Area Genealogical Society will be perusing the ...

NEW YORK -- Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They'll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers -- from Joe ...

But according to the 1940 census, the trailblazing athlete didn't even exist. There's no record of Gibson and her family in the decennial census, the records of which were released online to the ...

In less than two weeks, genealogists and historians will get their first chance to begin combing the 1940 U.S. census for more clues about what life was like in the early part of the past century. “It ...