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 ...

Michael Snow: 60 million hits in 3 hours after release shows hunger for family history Snow: Hidden for 72 years, it's now available to all to verify family lore or learn a secret Census shows U.S.

With the help of online volunteers, the National Archives and Records Administration and leading genealogy groups are turning the 1940 US Census into an easy to search database. With the help of ...

Records offer snapshots into lives of past inhabitants of homes Finding a long-lost uncle’s name on a census form or discovering that Grandpa identified himself as a mural painter: It’s the stuff ...

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 ...

I got nervous when I first pulled up images from the 1940 census and saw the small, sometimes illegible and faded handwriting. Trolling through the 30 images for Gaylord, Minn., where my paternal ...

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.

The internet age has made a wealth of information available to anyone with a working connection, and being able to move backward in time through detailed records offers the chance to see our family ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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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 ...