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 ...

Editor’s Note: Michael S. Snow is a historian on the history staff of the U.S. Census Bureau. Michael Snow: 60 million hits in 3 hours after release shows hunger for family history Snow: Hidden for 72 ...

Records offer snapshots into lives of past inhabitants of homes 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 ...

A small clue to Bernice Bennett’s past leapt out at her from the computer screen, on a scanned ledger filled with addresses entered with the precision penmanship that is a lost art. It was 72 years ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 1940 U.S. Census Community Project, the first and largest national service project of its kind, announced today the entire set of 132 million names from the 1940 U ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image taken from microfilm and provided by Ancestry.com shows a 1940 U.S. Census ledger page that includes an entry for ...

Every 10 years, the Census Bureau records how many people are living in the United States. Today, most households are able to send in their surveys by mail. But in 1940, more than 100,000 Census ...

Visitors interested in digging through the 1940 census data significantly bested Monday’s deluge of web traffic a day after crippling the National Archives’ latest project and registering a whopping ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

Update 12 noon Tuesday (Census Release Day Two): Success! This morning before leaving for work, I successfully downloaded the 40 pages of census schedules that cover the North Side Chicago enumeration ...