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 ...
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.
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 ...
NEW YORK -- The newly released 1940 U.S. census is such a digital smash that it took a day for the website hosting it to get up to speed after tens of millions of hits almost paralyzed it. The ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- 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. But ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- 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. But ...
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 ...