(CBS News) - When the National Archives and Records Administration released the 1940 Census records on Monday, they may not have expected just how many people would want to access the 72-year-old data ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — 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.

Data from the 1940 U.S. census was released online Monday, and McKinleyville resident Karen Burgess said she’s already exploring the new information. ”I’m more than a little excited about it,” Burgess ...

After 72 years, new data offers insights into the state of the country after the Great Depression on the eve of World War II On Monday, the Census Bureau released the 1940 United States Census records ...

(CNN) — Personal, historic details of more than 132 million people were released online through the 1940 Census Monday, providing the public with free access to a slice of American history. 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 ...

FILE - In this July 6, 1957 file photo, Althea Gibson, of New York City, holds the women's singles tennis trophy at Wimbledon, England, while being kissed by her finals opponent, Darlene Hard, of ...

Editor’s Note: Michael S. Snow is a historian on the history staff of the U.S. Census Bureau. A reporter last week asked me if many people cared about the release of individual records from the 1940 ...

Finding a long-lost uncle’s name on a census form or discovering that Grandpa identified himself as a mural painter: It’s the stuff genealogists and history hunters live for. It also creates the kind ...

Every ten years, Census takers roam the country and compile a comprehensive record of (just about) every man, woman and child in the nation. Digests of those records are released in stages a couple of ...