After 72 years under a cloak of secrecy, the federal government threw open the doors on the details of the 1940 Census Monday, in an unveiling marked by great fanfare – and even greater computer glitches.
For the first time, the census details — the actual answers offered up by our grandparents and great-grandparents – were made available online. And in the web equivalent of Walmart offering an iPad for $99 on Black Friday, millions of Americans raced for the doors Monday morning, promptly overwhelming computer servers and leaving most would-be genealogists in the dark. Read More.
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