Hi All,
Not sure if it has already been posted but Ancestry.com have free access from 3-8 July - 65 million records from the 13 original colonies, plus other patriot records. All US records but i managed to quickly find a relative on the 1940 census. Only a few weeks ago the record had not been updated.
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Ailsa
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trish1
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Hi Ailsa
There is a list on ancestry as to which states have been indexed for 1940 - so far Colorado, Delaware, DC, Maine, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia. I have tried to use their suggestions for manually searching West Virginia with no luck whatsoever. My people of interest in the US lived in Ohio/Penns/West Va - (probably within 20 miles of each other) - so I'm hoping West Va is indexed soon.
Trish
There is a list on ancestry as to which states have been indexed for 1940 - so far Colorado, Delaware, DC, Maine, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia. I have tried to use their suggestions for manually searching West Virginia with no luck whatsoever. My people of interest in the US lived in Ohio/Penns/West Va - (probably within 20 miles of each other) - so I'm hoping West Va is indexed soon.
Trish
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Hi Ailsa and Trish,
I have had more luck going page by page in the unindexed states than in searching the indexed ones on Ancestry for the 1940 census. The index is extremely poor, with serious mis-transcriptions (not too surprising, given their track record). In addition, it seems that many people were simply not counted
I know the exact street and house for one family and that house is skipped in the enumeration. The enumerator went down the street one way and stopped just short of the house, then went down the other way and stopped again! 
I know the address from the 1940 directory of that town-- the family were there from at least 1938-1944-- but no census record.
Hope you have better luck,
Sarah
I have had more luck going page by page in the unindexed states than in searching the indexed ones on Ancestry for the 1940 census. The index is extremely poor, with serious mis-transcriptions (not too surprising, given their track record). In addition, it seems that many people were simply not counted
I know the exact street and house for one family and that house is skipped in the enumeration. The enumerator went down the street one way and stopped just short of the house, then went down the other way and stopped again! I know the address from the 1940 directory of that town-- the family were there from at least 1938-1944-- but no census record.Hope you have better luck,
Sarah