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Bureau County Republican
| 1 year ago
07 p.m.CDT Updated:Wednesday, April 4, 2012 3:07 p.m.CDT The 1940 Census was conducted during a momentous time in the nation's history, as the Great Depression was winding down and not long before the United States'entry into World War II.
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
The newly released 1940 U.S. census is such a digital smash that it took a day for the website to get up to speed after tens of millions of hits almost paralyzed it.
The National Archives said Tuesday that census pages are again...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The 1940 Census collected personal data such as address, sex, race, age and employment from the more than 132 million people living in the country at the time. Public health concerns and attitudes were very different in the 1930s than they are today.
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Times Standard
| 1 year ago
considered the average American's lifespan at the time -- the raw data from the 1940 census records every home in the country. It details who lived there, what they did for a living, how much money they made, where they came from, their education and...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Charles Martin is 76 now, but he can still picture the street he lived on as a young boy in Winston-Salem, N.C. It was a short dirt road, he recalled, that ran by a brickyard that turned the dirt red. Martin never knew just when his family left the...
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Sacramento Bee
| 1 year ago
And according to the 1940 census, the Sacramento region was home to about 240,000 people one-tenth of its current population. Details about every one of those 240,000 people and the other 132 million people living in America in 1940 were...
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The Salt Lake City Tribune
| 1 year ago
We're all anxious," she says. "We were all hyped that we could get on at one o'clock." Legions of volunteers will sit at computers, stand with tablets or tap smartphones to download batches of the vintage forms, then type into a database the...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
what you need to know to look up relatives Monday's release of 1940 Census data sets off frenzy to dig into records on family past, crashing the website...How much money they made, or maybe what they were doing in 1939, when the nation was still...
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HNN
| 1 year ago
Genealogists woke up early this morning, anticipating today's unlocking of a virtual time capsule: For the first time, census data were released online . This particular unveiling -- information from the 1940 census -- is of particular interest...
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Xtra News
| 1 year ago
The National Archives opened a treasure trove to genealogists and historians on Monday, releasing the 1940 national census in its entirety -- and doing so for the first time online...In the coming months, an army of 300,000 volunteers, sifting...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Construction spending fell 1.1 percent month-to-month in February, the U.S...Total construction spending reached $808 billion, down from the revised estimate of $818.1 billion in January, the bureau said. Spending for February was 5.8 percent above...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
With 3.9 million images scanned from more than 4,000 rolls of microfilm, the database represents the largest collection of digital information ever released by the Archives, and the first time a census has been released online. It consists of...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
US 1940 census release reveals post-depression country Verla Morris was working as a keypunch operator in Fairfield, Illinois, when the 1940 census was counted The US National Archive has released the data of individual Americans from the national...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The National Archives announced they will release detailed information on 132 million people in the 1940 U.S...The census records will include names, addresses, income and employment information along with personal data of Americans surveyed during...
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The Orange County Register
| 1 year ago
Before dawn Monday comes a moment family historians have been awaiting for 72 years: the release of raw questionnaires from the 1940 census. The National Archives will post the forms online at http://1940census.archives.gov/ at 6 a.m...The idea is to...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Census release will be like a millennium party for people fascinated with facts about lives and historical context, a genealogist said. It will be "like a Y2K New Year's Eve party for genealogists," Liesa Healy-Miller, a Framingham, Mass.,...
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PR Newswire
| 1 year ago
The entire 1940 census is available online today exclusively at 1940census.archives.gov , the official U.S. government website for the 1940 census. Archives.com built the tools that allow researchers and amateur historians alike to browse, view, and...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
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 name and details about her life in the records being...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
And Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American actor ever to take home an Oscar...Three score and 12 years ago, America was in a very different place economically and culturally. But on April 2, 2012, when the National Archives releases detailed...
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Kansas City Star
| 1 year ago
To start, you'll need to know the address or approximate address of where the person or people were living by April 1, 1940.Sources to find addresses include birth, marriage and death certificates; diaries; employment records; photographs; scrapbooks;...
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Chandler Republic
| 1 year ago
The Republic azcentral.com Most days, Robert D. Villescas Sr. sits in his small west Phoenix apartment for hours at a time, searching...Often, what he finds gives him an unexpected glimpse into his family roots. For more than a decade, Villescas has...
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Contra Costa Times
| 1 year ago
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 counted in the 1940 census. And Nicka Smith will wake up at the crack of dawn, turn...
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Town Journal
| 1 year ago
A long time ago far, far away, said Rutgers University demographer James Hughes...As Leonia octogenarian Georgette Diemer said of life in the region at the end of the Great Depression and just before World War II: Oh gosh, it's just unbelievable...
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The Birmingham News
| 1 year ago
On Monday morning Annistine Gilbert will open her laptop at her Birmingham home and dive backward in time...Census -- kept secret for 72 years -- will be made public for the first time. Gilbert will go online and travel decades into the past, looking...
