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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paula Stuart-Warren is giddy with excitement. The National Archives is about to unlock a much-anticipated treasure: the detailed information gathered from 132 million people in the 1940 U.S. census.

Americans responded in overwhelming numbers Monday to the online release of detailed information from the 1940 census — the first time such a trove of historic census records has been available on the ...

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 ...

The department offers a "genealogy clinic" on the second Saturday of every month from 10:30 a.m. tol 2 p.m. for those wanting in-depth, one-on-one help with an expert. The sessions are free and open ...

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 ...