{"id":505218,"date":"2010-04-02T12:33:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=8174"},"modified":"2010-04-02T12:33:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T16:33:28","slug":"exactly-two-years-from-today-the-1940-census-is-to-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/505218","title":{"rendered":"Exactly Two Years from Today the 1940  Census is to be Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years from today &#8211; April 2, 2012 &#8211; the National Archives will release the 1940 census to the public. According to the National Archives website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/genealogy\/census\/1940\/general-info.html\">http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/genealogy\/census\/1940\/general-info.html<\/a> , the plan is that the census will be digitized and available at the Archives and online on that day. Note that April 1 will be a Sunday, so the 1940 Census won&#8217;t be available until the following day. I don&#8217;t see anything about indexes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether Ancestry.com, Heritage Quest, Footnote, FamilySearch and others will be able to enter into agreements with the Archives for digitization and\/or indexing before the legal release date.  Commercial digitization and indexing of the 1930 census began upon delivery of the microfilm &#8211; following the April 1 release date in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Joel Weintraub for bringing me up-to-date on the info. at the National Archives site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years from today &#8211; April 2, 2012 &#8211; the National Archives will release the 1940 census to the public. According to the National Archives website: http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/genealogy\/census\/1940\/general-info.html , the plan is that the census will be digitized and available at the Archives and online on that day. Note that April 1 will be a Sunday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}