James Heffernon sold butter and eggs, enough to buy a good $10,000 house for his wife and five children. Mary Kunicki came from Poland, and though she couldn’t read or write, she had three sons who ...

Jason Beaubien reports on one of the biggest events of the decade — at least for genealogists. Today, the National Archives released the data from the 1930 census. Information on individual households ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- You might think the 1930 census was a new "Star Wars" movie, judging by the lines, and hoopla, surrounding its release today. The Kansas City office of the National Archives ...

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 ...

Kansas City, Mo.? You might think the 1930 census was a new “Star Wars” movie, judging by the lines, and hoopla, surrounding its release today. The Kansas City office of the National Archives plans to ...

Most days, amateur researchers camped out in the National Archives reference room in Laguna Niguel, Calif., chat about the past as they untangle the threads of family history. In recent weeks, though, ...

LINDON, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Footnote.com today announced it is providing free access to the more than 123 million names from its Interactive 1930 US Census throughout the month of August. With ...

Seventy-two years ago the average life expectancy was sixty years; bread was nine cents a loaf; and only five thousand people lived in a dusty little outpost called Las Vegas. Life was definitely ...

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 ...

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 ...