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Subscription genealogy website Ancestry.com has
decided to make the 1940 census images and index—which will be on the site after the
1940 census is opened next year for research—free to search and view through 2013.

That’ll be more than 3.8 million images with 130 million records. Even better, they’ll
be indexed by 45 fields, meaning you’ll be able to search on the name, street address,
county, state, parents’ birthplaces and more.

The records won’t be on Ancestry.com right when the census is released April 2, 2012.
Ancestry.com’s press release says they’ll commence “streaming onto the website in
mid-April 2012.”

Can’t wait until mid-April? The record images will be available first on the National
Archives’ website, but they won’t be searchable right away by name. Click
here to see our post about finding your ancestors’ 1940 census enumeration district.

Get help with your census research—including preparing for the release of the 1940
census records—in the May
2010 Family Tree Magazine.