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 ...

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is seeking help to index records from the 1940 Census.The information gathered by the federal government for its decennial census is kept classified ...

NEW 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 -- from Joe ...

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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.

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 ...

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But according to the 1940 census, the trailblazing athlete didn't even exist. There's no record of Gibson and her family in the decennial census, the records of which were released online to the ...