1940 New York census records now searchable by name

By Around the Web

(MSNBC) Americans now may plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers — from Joe DiMaggio and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy to their own relatives.

Previously, users had to provide exact addresses from seven decades ago to look for a New York connection.

With names, free searches (with an Ancestry.com free account) of the 1940 U.S. census first made public in April unlock personal information about residents of New York — then the largest U.S. state and an immigrant hub from which people moved all over the country.

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