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 ...

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 ...

ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 1 – This photo provided by the University of Texas at Arlington Library shows an image of a poster used for promotional efforts during the 1940 Census. Many questions of the ...

I. Number of inhabitants. Total population for states, counties, and minor civil divisions; for urban and rural areas; for incorporated places; for metropolitan districts; and for census tracts.