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 Friday, June 29, 2012
Ancestry.com Adds Six States to Its 1940 Census Index (Including Ohio!)
Posted by Diane
No sooner had we sent out yesterday's Genealogy Insider newsletter
with a
1940 census update, than Ancestry.com
announced the addition of six states to its free, searchable
1940 census index.
Those new states are:
- Pennsylvania
- Ohio (yahoo!)
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Colorado
- Vermont
Added to the existing Ancestry.com indexes for Delaware, Maine, New
York, Nevada, Washington DC, this makes 10 searchable states plus DC
for Ancestry.com, and a total of 34 states plus DC across all 1940
census index websites (MyHeritage and FamilySearch with
its 1940 Community Census Project partners). The 1940 census is free
to search on all these sites.
I immediately searched the Ohio index for my grandmother, who I knew
was living with her sister somewhere in Cincinnati in 1940. Right
away I found her and a sister, living with the family of another
sister in a suburb just north of downtown.
She was a bookkeeper at a foundry. Now I just need to figure out
where she met my grandfather, an engineer staying at the YMCA
downtown in 1940.
This screenshot shows Ancestry.com's new image viewer (still in
beta). A window at the bottom shows transcribed information, and one on the right shows source details (you can make both of these windows disappear
by clicking the double arrows on the green tabs).
When you zoom in and
can no longer see the name column, the indexed names pop out from the left
side—with the person you searched on and his/her household
highlighted—so you can keep track of the rows of names. For several
columns, you can hover over a cell and the transcribed information
will pop up.
I've experienced a few minor glitches when moving around the record image using the new viewer on a Mac.
Search Ancestry.com's
1940 census here (the page's design makes it look like you're
just searching New York, but you can type any of the indexed states
into the Lived In field).
Ancestry.com | census records | Free Databases
Friday, June 29, 2012 9:08:39 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) 
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