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1940s census news

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New 1940 US census records show black undercount

New York City :: NY :: USA | 12 months ago

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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 according to the 1940 census, the trailblazing athlete didn't even

1940 census records give picture of families in days long past

Vandalia :: OH :: USA | 1 year ago

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Norma Fisher Austin among records collected by the Genealogical Society of Douglas County. Austin mined the 1940 census for information about her family. The News-Review Norma Austin, above, appears with her classmates at Green Elementary School in

History unlocked: Just-released Census data open doors

Tamuning :: Guam | 1 year ago

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Antonia Castro, holds up photos of her father, Manuel Borja Degracia, right, and her aunt, Catalina Degracia Cruz, as she sits with her husband, Juan Castro, in the garage of their Talofofo home, yesterday. The couple recounted their lives growing up

U.S. Census lets old secrets out today: How to find them

Santa Ana :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago

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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

More than just a ‘name on a piece of paper'

Princeton :: IL :: USA | 1 year ago

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Monday, Americans all over the country are going to be plastered to their computers. They are searchers, and they're going to be looking for answers, answers about Grandma Jane and Great Uncle Ned, all of the people in their lives who were alive and

Census documenting Great Depression to be released

New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago

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It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad. Now, intimate details of 132