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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Census Bureau has long known more about my family history than my family does. For instance, it was through old census forms that I discovered my grandmother changed her name from “Paula” to ...

It was at the onset of the Great Depression, and Oklahoma was about to enter an era of great change. I browsed some schedules that the enumerator completed in Lawton. Morris Simpson resided on Gore ...