02 April 2012

1940 United States Federal Census

The 1940 United States Federal Census has been release by the Nation Archives. Ancestry.com has started posting images from the census, see http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census?o_xid=50820&o_lid=50820&o_sch=Social to browse images and for more information. Since there are over 3.8 million images for this census it will take some time to upload all of them and even more time to index them all.

You can also view maps of each enumeration district here http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3028&o_xid=50820&o_lid=50820&o_sch=Social.

Good luck in your searching!