This image taken from microfilm and provided by Ancestry.com shows a 1940 U.S. Census ledger page that includes an entry for Jacqueline Bouvier. Boubier, who became Jacqueline Kennedy when she married ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — It was on the streets of her Harlem neighborhood in the 1940s that teenager Althea Gibson began working on the tennis skills that would take her all the way to a Wimbledon championship. But ...

After a 72-year wait required by law, the National Archives has released individual records from the 1940 Census, opening a gold mine for people researching their family histories. But the 1940 Census ...

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 ...

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 ...

The internet age has made a wealth of information available to anyone with a working connection, and being able to move backward in time through detailed records offers the chance to see our family ...

Many Chattanoogans and others excitedly look forward to the latest smart phone or electronic tablet when it goes on sale, but a few people have been just as giddy about a part of the past that ...

National Archives expected a high demand but traffic shut down server April 2, 2012 -- In 1940, Ronald Reagan and his wife paid $135 in rent, he worked 30 hours the last week in March, and the couple ...

Nylon stockings became all the rage. Black fedoras were the "pure quill" — meaning the real deal. Bing Crosby crooned Only Forever on the console. And Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American ...