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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Pittsfield is the only community in the entire county which has shown a steady increase in 17 consecutive Federal Censuses. The greatest single gain in a decade came with the industrial expansion of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When the 1940 census records are released Monday, Verla Morris can consider herself a part of living history. Morris, who is in her 100th year, will get to experience the novelty of ...

With the recent release of preliminary 2020 census data, there was one data point that stood out to most demographers: low population growth. Looking at the numbers, the 2020 census revealed markedly ...

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 ...