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 ...

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, ...

More than 122 million original records from the 1930 census will be released April 1, providing a unique snapshot of the nation at the close of the Roaring ‘20s. The handwritten forms include 30 ...

Charlie Chapman threaded tape No. 1167 into the microfilm machine and turned the hand crank until he came to the entries for Sunflower County, Miss. He scrolled slowly through page after page of ...

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 ...