Images of various households taken during the 1940 Census, assembled by the National Archives and the United States Census Bureau. With clipboards in hand, almost 120,000 census takers traveled to all ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Charlene Hansen of Cedar Rapids knew what she was looking for when she received a microfilm copy of the 1940 U.S. census for Benton County from the National Archives. Hansen, 80, ...

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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 ...

The National Archives released 1940 census records this morning, lifting the veil on details for Americans living through the Great Depression. More than 132 million people completed the 1940 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 ...

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 ...

The 1940 U.S. Census for Arkansas has arrived at the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Public Library’s Genealogy Department in microfilm format. This microfilm will complete the library’s holding of census ...

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