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FamilySearch has added six more states/territories to its free
1940 census index, for a total of 37 states indexed here. The additions are

• Arkansas
• Missouri
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Washington, DC
• West Virginia

Volunteers for the 1940 Census Community Project,
a collaboration among FamilySearch, Archives.com and findmypast.com,
have finished indexing the 1940 census records. Index data for the remaining 14 states
are still being processed. 

Now on FamilySearch, you can search
1940 census records for all the indexed states at once here (I like this interface
so much better than the previous map with the state progress pop-ups that were constantly
covering up other states).

Or you can
narrow your search to a particular indexed state here. 

You can search 1940 census records for all states on
Ancestry.com, whose index will be free through 2013.

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