genealogy sleuths, historians and the merely curious can dig through those 1950 census forms, the first to be unveiled in a searchable format. The records are released by the National Archives 72 ...

It is now easy to access information on individuals from that census, but beware of misspelled names. By Michael Wines The National Archives and Records Administration posted millions of records from ...

It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some ...

This image taken from microfilm and provided by Ancestry.com shows a 1940 U.S. Census ledger page that includes an entry for Jacqueline Bouvier. Boubier, who became Jacqueline Kennedy when she married ...

The Census Bureau has found irregularities in records for this year's national tally that, if left unfixed, could miscount millions of people. This latest development enlarges the scale of an ongoing ...

Federal law kept the answers on millions of census forms secret for 72 years. The forms went online on Friday, a bonanza for historians, genealogists and the merely curious. By Michael Wines ...

The department offers a "genealogy clinic" on the second Saturday of every month from 10:30 a.m. tol 2 p.m. for those wanting in-depth, one-on-one help with an expert. The sessions are free and open ...