Both Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.com have made major progress this week in posting of Indexes to the 1940 Census. The following info includes indexes that are currently being posted the night of Thursday, June 28-Friday June 29, 2012.
Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com – As of tonight (Thursday-Friday June 28-29) the following sites can be searched by name at Ancestry.com:
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Maine
- Nevada
- and New York
NEW! Ancestry is the only site that has the District of Columbia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee indexes available. The 1940 New York images and Index are available free of charge to New York State residents. The 1940 census records will remain searchable for freethrough 2013 at Ancestry.com/1940. Indexes to the following states are posting the night of Thursday, June 28 at Ancestry.com:
- Colorado – NEW
- Ohio – NEW
- Pennsylvania – NEW
- Tennessee – NEW
- Vermont – NEW
- Virginia – NEW
These states will join the collection with the above four other searchable states and Washington D.C. (ME, NV, DE, NY). These ten states (and D.C.) make up more than 39 million records of the 132 million total records to be completed later this year. These records remain searchable for free through 2013 at Ancestry.com/1940.
The 1940 U.S. Census Community Project
The free, searchable database from the coalition of:
- NARA,
- Archives.com,
- FamilySearch.org,
- findmypast.com
- and ProQuest. ProQuest plans to make the records available in over 7,000 public libraries nationwide in the coming months.
Those organizations cooperating in the Census Community Project have the following censuses indexed as of June 28, 2012. I’ve linked these to FamilySearch.org, but you can also find them at Archives.com, and findmypast.com.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- California – New Index this week
- Colorado
- Delaware
- Florida
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Indiana
- Iowa – New Index this week
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Mississippi
- Montana
- Nebraska – New Index this week
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Mexico – New Index this week
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- South Dakota
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington – New Index this week
- Wyoming
Note that as of today, Minnesota, and Rhode Island are 100% indexed, while New York and Missouri are 99% indexed, and Arkansas is 95% indexed by the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project, but the indexes are posted yet.
MyHeritage.com – WorldVitalRecords.com
MyHeritage.com and WorldVitalRecords.com have part of Rhode Island and the state of New York indexed.
