Most-Wired Generation Meets Greatest Generation in Census Frenzy
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Americans have downloaded 134 million document images from the 1940 census since individual records were released April 2. That’s 2 million more images than the number of Americans who were alive when the census was taken 72 years ago.
The decennial headcount, taken in the immediate aftermath of the Great Depression and shortly before the U.S. entered World War II, has been pure gold for genealogy buffs seeking to flesh out information about their ancestors.