As the U.S. Census enumerator made her way down the 300 block of Division Avenue in Grand Forks in April 1940, she came to the home of Albert and Martha Ruthhoske. She noted that Albert, 58, was born ...

In less than two weeks, genealogists and historians will get their first chance to begin combing the 1940 U.S. census for more clues about what life was like in the early part of the past century. “It ...

Here’s how it works: the 1940 Census does not have a simple last name search feature so, right away, you must do a little web adventuring of your own unless you know where Capote lived (our guess: ...

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 ...

Yiddish is the mother tongue of at least 1,751,100 American Jews, according to the results of a study of the 1940 census of people in the United States who were reared speaking foreign languages, it ...

Yesterday the National Archives and Records Administration released the 1940s census, and some cool resources popped up to go along with it. First, the Brooklyn Navy Yard posted 1940s Navy Yard images ...

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From Washington came provocative news last week. Its cud could and would be chewed for the next decade by manufacturers, economists, biologists, social planners, realtors, politicians, dreamers, ...