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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- Personal details of 132 million people will be disclosed on Monday as the U.S. government releases the 1940 census to the public for the first time after 72 years of privacy protection ...

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.

Lish Thompson was looking forward to finding her dad on a census for the first time. The Charleston County Library genealogy expert tried several times Monday, but gave up around 7 p.m. without ever ...

Who says there's no free lunch? You may have read over the past week about the release of 1940 Census records on a new U.S. government website, a site that buckled under the huge demand from people ...