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They are snapshots frozen in the sepia haze of an April 72 years ago. The day the census taker came to her house in 1940, unmarried 27-year-old Margaret Sowell operated a teletype in West Palm Beach ...
Lish Thompson was looking forward to finding her dad on a census for the first time. The Charleston County Library genealogy expert tried several times Monday, but gave up around 7 p.m. without ever ...
The National Archives released 1940 census records this morning, lifting the veil on details for Americans living through the Great Depression. More than 132 million people completed the 1940 census, ...
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 -- 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 ...
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SALT LAKE CITY -- As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gather this weekend for General Conference in Salt Lake City they will no doubt hear some discussion regarding the work ...
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