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1940 US Federal Census - free
« on: Wednesday 08 August 12 23:11 BST (UK) »
In case fellow RootsChatters hadn't seen this - Ancestry now has all States searchable and the census is free on the site at present (you may need to register).

Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan

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Re: 1940 US Federal Census - free
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 09 August 12 11:17 BST (UK) »
Also, many states are indexed at www.familysearch.org, and all images are available there or at http://1940census.archives.gov/.

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Re: 1940 US Federal Census - free
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 09 August 12 12:27 BST (UK) »
...and more experience (I've been busily gap-filling)

The Family Search website sometimes generates results that Ancestry doesn't (and vice versa)

Don't always expect full names - John William Jones may well be enumerated as Billy Jones or J W Jones or even W J Jones, so some imaginative searching may help a lot. On Ancestry, the "lived in" slot on the search form helps quite a bit (unless the family have moved to a different State, as I discovered to my frustration).

The census forms give some information that those of us used to the UK census don't get - for example income and house value; the two columns for occupation tend to tell more than the sometimes opaque UK statements; however birthplaces are at State level only, rather than town.

I've had a fascinating time!
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan