This image taken from microfilm and provided by Ancestry.com shows a 1940 U.S. Census ledger page that includes an entry for Jacqueline Bouvier. Boubier, who became Jacqueline Kennedy when she married ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — It was on the streets of her Harlem neighborhood in the 1940s that teenager Althea Gibson began working on the tennis skills that would take her all the way to winning Wimbledon.

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 ...

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 genealogists and history hunters live for. It also creates the kind ...

In April and early May of 1940, some 120,000 people fanned across the nation to collect the 1940 census. Now their long-hidden handiwork is available online at 1940census.archives.gov. You can read ...

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 seeing her own ...

FILE - In this July 6, 1957 file photo, Althea Gibson, of New York City, holds the women's singles tennis trophy at Wimbledon, England, while being kissed by her finals opponent, Darlene Hard, of ...

NEW YORKNEW 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 – ...

NEW YORK — It was on the streets of her Harlem neighborhood in the 1940s that teenager Althea Gibson began working on the tennis skills that would take her all the way to winning Wimbledon. But ...

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 ...