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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
has selected Inflection—the parent company of the genealogy subscription site Archives.com—to
to design and host a free website for the 1940 census, to be released April 2, 2012
at 9 a.m.

Researchers will be able to browse, view, and download images from the 1940 census. See
NARA’s full announcement here.

To kick off the partnership, Archives.com has created a web
page about the launch of the 1940 Census.

You won’t be able to search the census by name right away on April 2; instead, you’ll
need to know the enumeration district (ED) your relatives lived in and then browse
the records for that district. You can find the ED if you know your ancestor’s address
in 1940 or in 1930.

Here’s
a post about an online tool that can help you determine the ED.

FamilySearch
is heading up an effort to index the 1940 census records ASAP after they’re released,
which will let genealogists search by name.

Subscription website Ancestry.com also
has announced plans
to provide the 1940 census for free, at least through 2013.