Last Updated 11:24 a.m. ET (CBS News) It's Christmas for genealogists - the 1940 U.S. census was released Monday, 72 years after Americans were enumerated on the heels of the Great Depression and ...

The United States National Archives has just released an excellent tool for researching just this type of information: a website that houses scans of the entire 1940 U.S. census.

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 Yorke… ...

The United States instituted its first peacetime draft in September 1940; and the ranks of the armed forces mushroomed. Unemployment fell from around 15% for the week before Census Day 1940 to ...

The newly released 1940 U.S. census is such a digital smash that it took a day for the website hosting it to get up to speed after tens of millions of hits almost paralyzed it.

1940 US Census becoming fully searchable online through volunteer effort. With the help of online volunteers, the National Archives and Records Administration and leading genealogy groups are ...

Since the National Archives released 1940 census records last month, ... visiting houses to personally count the 132 million people living in the United States in 1940.

NEW YORK (AP) -- When the 1940 census records are released today, Verla Morris can consider herself a part of living history. Morris, who is in her 100th year, will get to experience the novelty ...

NEW YORK — Interest in the newly released 1940 U.S. census is so great that the government website with the information was nearly paralyzed shortly after the records became available to the ...

The pivotal year 1940 "marked the beginnings of a shift from a depressed peacetime to a prosperous wartime," says David E. Kyvig, author of Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939.

Government computer experts are working on the 1940 U.S. census site which nearly became paralyzed shortly after the records became available to the public for the first time.