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 ...

As the U.S. Census enumerator made her way down the 300 block of Division Avenue in Grand Forks in April 1940, she came to the home of Albert and Martha Ruthhoske. She noted that Albert, 58, was born ...

The long-awaited release of the 1940 census took place on April 2. For the first time, we can see the questions asked of our ancestors and their families. This is an overview of the census form. The ...

Who says there's no free lunch? You may have read over the past week about the release of 1940 Census records on a new U.S. government website, a site that buckled under the huge demand from people ...

the majority of states in the Rocky Mountain region. Several other states are more than 80 percent done or in the final stages of being completed. According to Nauta, more than 150,000 volunteers ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — As a teenager, tennis legend Althea Gibson played paddle tennis on the streets of her New York City neighborhood. But there's no record of Gibson or her parents in the 1940 U.S. Census.

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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 ...

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 ...