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 – Tens of thousands of researchers will begin mining the 1940 U.S. census records for genealogical information on Monday, when the National Archives posts the documents online. Monday's ...

(CBS News) - When the National Archives and Records Administration released the 1940 Census records on Monday, they may not have expected just how many people would want to access the 72-year-old data ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

Every ten years, Census takers roam the country and compile a comprehensive record of (just about) every man, woman and child in the nation. Digests of those records are released in stages a couple of ...

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 ...