NEW YORK (AP) – When the 1940 census records are released Monday, Verla Morris can consider herself a part of living history. Morris, who is in her 100th year, will get to experience the novelty of ...

The 1940 census was long known to have a black undercount. Evidence of it was found within a decade in a demographic study of young children and another of draft-age men. But modern-day genealogists ...

NEW YORK (AP) – 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 ...

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 ...

(CBS News) It's Christmas for genealogists - the 1940 U.S. census was released Monday, 72 years after Americans were enumerated on the heels of the Great Depression and the eve of World War II. The ...

It's seen as the greatest mother lode of information yet on the “Greatest Generation.” Genealogists and family historians are eagerly awaiting the government's release Monday of the 1940 census, ...

In this March 30, 2012, photo, Verla Morris, who will turn 100 later this year, poses for a photograph as she goes through some of her family census data from the 19th and 20th centuries at her local ...

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.