72 years after the 1940 U.S. Census was taken, by law it is no longer protected, and can be revealed to the people.
The 1940 census will be released DIGITALLY by the National Archives only, meaning those of us who also love microfilm will have to use computers and click away. (I think medicine needs to concentrate on forefinger joint replacements! I know mine is arthritic!)
The census will be AVAILABLE ON LINE AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES SITE at no charge! (You may want to search this blog for other 1940 census information, including the project that helps you go to the right ED (enumeration district) based on the 1930! But did you know that the census also counted people who were not technically living in the United States on April 1, 1940?
Eventually certain subscription databases will work on making an index but they too will have to wait for the NATIONAL ARCHIVES release to do so! Since this is going to be a MASSIVE PROJECT most of us will not wait!
Because this release is of momentous importance to genealogists, I will be blogging a lot about it in the next couple months!
