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 ...

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 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.

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, ...

It is no longer essential to provide exact addresses from seven decades ago to look for a New York connection. With names, free searches of the 1940 U.S. census first made public in April will unlock ...

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, ...

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 ...