Michael Snow: 60 million hits in 3 hours after release shows hunger for family history Snow: Hidden for 72 years, it's now available to all to verify family lore or learn a secret Census shows U.S.

Records offer snapshots into lives of past inhabitants of homes 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 ...

The internet age has made a wealth of information available to anyone with a working connection, and being able to move backward in time through detailed records offers the chance to see our family ...

A sort of national treasure is scheduled to be revealed Monday: In April 1940, 120,000 census takers spread out across America to take an inventory of its residents. Now that the legally mandated 72 ...

With a few key strokes at 6 a.m. Monday, a Silicon Valley engineer will open the lid on a treasure for genealogy buffs and local historians: the long-hidden personal records of 132 million Americans ...

Visitors interested in digging through the 1940 census data significantly bested Monday’s deluge of web traffic a day after crippling the National Archives’ latest project and registering a whopping ...

NEW YORK — When the 1940 census records are released today, 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 ...

We've been looking back to 1940 a lot this week. The census from that year has just been opened to the public, online and fully searchable. Life is looking back at 1940, too. Specifically, at an ...

A small clue to Bernice Bennett’s past leapt out at her from the computer screen, on a scanned ledger filled with addresses entered with the precision penmanship that is a lost art. It was 72 years ...

Every 10 years, the Census Bureau records how many people are living in the United States. Today, most households are able to send in their surveys by mail. But in 1940, more than 100,000 Census ...

Thanks to our census reports, we know the population of Canada is more than 33 million, it has doubled since 1961 and Milton, Ont. has the fastest rate of growth. To protect the privacy of living ...

Editor’s Note: Michael S. Snow is a historian on the history staff of the U.S. Census Bureau. Michael Snow: 60 million hits in 3 hours after release shows hunger for family history Snow: Hidden for 72 ...