NEW YORK -- 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 Joe ...

CORRECTS 1940 U.S. CENSUS TO 1925 NEW YORK STATE CENSUS - This detail of an image taken from microfilm and provided by shows a section of a page from the 1925 New York State Census with an entry for ...

In less than two weeks, genealogists and historians will get their first chance to begin combing the 1940 U.S. census for more clues about what life was like in the early part of the past century. “It ...

Here’s how it works: the 1940 Census does not have a simple last name search feature so, right away, you must do a little web adventuring of your own unless you know where Capote lived (our guess: ...