Ken Macomber wants to learn more about what life was like for his father at the dawn of the Great Depression. Curt Witcher is looking for clues about his grandfather's younger days in Indiana. They ...

WASHINGTON — June Hall moved her finger down the page, found her grandmother’s name and smiled. After half an hour of scrolling through microfilm of personal records from the 1930 census, Hall had hit ...

An April 2 Metro article about the 1930 Census included an incorrect age for Edith B. Wilson, widow of President Woodrow Wilson, on April 1 of that year. She was 57. (Published 4/4/02) The snipping of ...

Actor Edward James Olmos wishes he could trace his family’s Mexican history back 100,000 years, but he’ll have to settle for 1930 for now. In what one online genealogy firm say is an extraordinary ...

The National Archives is lifting a 72-year-old veil of confidentiality on personal records from the 1930 census in what historians say is the largest release of genealogical data by the federal ...