Two years from today – April 2, 2012 – the National Archives will release the 1940 census to the public. According to the National Archives website: http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/census/1940/general-info.html , the plan is that the census will be digitized and available at the Archives and online on that day. Note that April 1 will be a Sunday, so the 1940 Census won’t be available until the following day. I don’t see anything about indexes…
I don’t know whether Ancestry.com, Heritage Quest, Footnote, FamilySearch and others will be able to enter into agreements with the Archives for digitization and/or indexing before the legal release date. Commercial digitization and indexing of the 1930 census began upon delivery of the microfilm – following the April 1 release date in 2002.
Thanks to Joel Weintraub for bringing me up-to-date on the info. at the National Archives site.
No, there will be **no** film released for the 1940 census schedules. The entire population census is being digitized, and the images will be put online and available on April 2nd, 2012 to anyone with access to the internet.
See: http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/census/1940/
for information about what NARA (National Archives) is planning for this census release.
I have tried to find the name of a H.E. Smith in the OREGON State Hospital for 1930. She was born in Canada of Irish parents.
Have been unable to find her, yet it is reported in the family she was sent there about 1921. She spent her entire life a ward of the state.
Please Help.