Seventy-two years ago, someone knocked on your ancestor's door and asked them a series of questions. Friday, all of that information will be at your fingertips. So break out the family tree and ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Henry G. Cisneros served four terms as the mayor of San Antonio. Elected in 1981, the San Antonio native rose to national prominence as President Clinton’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Have you ever wondered what your ancestors were doing in the 1940s? Starting Friday, you can find out a little more by delving into a slice of U.S. history and learning more about ...

Historians and genealogists rejoice. On Friday, the 1950 U.S. Census individual-level data will be released to the public. Sequestered by law for 72 years, the personally identifiable and detailed ...

On Friday, April 1, my genealogy friends and I didn’t get much sleep. Like the rare appearance of a celestial object or the reemergence of an old friend, the U.S. census records from 1950 were made ...

Federal law kept the answers on millions of census forms secret for 72 years. The forms went online on Friday, a bonanza for historians, genealogists and the merely curious. By Michael Wines ...

Country music legend Kenny Rogers was 11 years old in 1950 when a census taker came to his family's home in Houston's Fourth Ward. Rogers lived at the San Felipe Court Apartments in unit 1037 with his ...

At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time, precisely 72 years after enumerators began knocking on the doors of some 46 million American houses and apartments, the federal government made public what they learned: ...