The Irish Family History Forum will meet this Saturday morning, Jan. 17, at the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 West Merrick ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1940 census was long known to have a black undercount. Evidence of it was found within a decade in a demographic study of young children and another of draft-age men. But modern-day genealogists ...

Carol Morello is the diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post, covering the State Department. She previously wrote about demographics and the census. She has worked at The Washington Post ...

NEW 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. But ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They'll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers — from ...

NEW 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. But ...

“You had better remove the records,” Secretary of State James Monroe warned President James Madison during the War of 1812 as British troops advanced toward Washington to burn it down. The U.S.

Starting after midnight, exact addresses won't be essential to look for a New York connection in the 1940 census, free of charge. Census experts say the New York data is of national interest because ...