In this March 30, 2012, photo, Verla Morris, who will turn 100 later this year, poses for a photograph as she goes through some of her family census data from the 19th and 20th centuries at her local ...

NEW YORK — As a teenager, tennis legend Althea Gibson played paddle tennis on the streets of her New York City neighborhood. But there's no record of Gibson or her parents in the 1940 U.S. Census.

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is seeking help to index records from the 1940 Census.The information gathered by the federal government for its decennial census is kept classified ...

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 ...

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

NEW YORK (AP) -- It was on the streets of her Harlem neighborhood in the 1940s that teenager Althea Gibson began working on the tennis skills that would take her all the way to winning Wimbledon. But ...

But according to the 1940 census, the trailblazing athlete didn't even exist. There's no record of Gibson and her family in the decennial census, the records of which were released online to the ...