NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They'll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers — from ...

It is no longer essential to provide exact addresses from seven decades ago to look for a New York connection. With names, free searches of the 1940 U.S. census first made public in April will unlock ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va (WTVR) – Virginia is now one of six states where the 1940 U.S. census is now fully indexed, so users can search for records of family members by name, location, or family relation. This ...

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 ...

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.

If you’re eager to dig through 1940 census records and don’t want to wait for a name index to be available in six months, here’s some advice we’ve gleaned from genealogists and other experts. The ...

With the help of a national volunteer project involving more than 100,000 people, 1940 census records for California and more than two dozen other states have now been indexed by name and can be ...

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 ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They’ll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers – ...

Americans now may plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers — from Joe DiMaggio and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy to their own relatives.

Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They’ll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers — from Joe DiMaggio and ...