NEW YORK (AP) – Personal details of 132 million people will be disclosed on Monday as the U.S. government releases the 1940 census to the public for the first time after 72 years of privacy protection ...

In the not too distant past, researchers who wanted to view U.S. census records had to travel somewhere or pay to rent microfilm. Today they can view these records without leaving home. HeritageQuest ...

Founded in 1894 by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Genealogical Society of Utah is actually two years older than the state whose name it bears. Initially a resource for the ...

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 ...