This image taken from microfilm and provided by Ancestry.com shows a 1940 U.S. Census ledger page that includes an entry for Jacqueline Bouvier. Boubier, who became Jacqueline Kennedy when she married ...

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 ...

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 ...

After a 72-year wait required by law, the National Archives has released individual records from the 1940 Census, opening a gold mine for people researching their family histories. But the 1940 Census ...

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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 ...

Many Chattanoogans and others excitedly look forward to the latest smart phone or electronic tablet when it goes on sale, but a few people have been just as giddy about a part of the past that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.