Ancestry.com announced on Friday that the 1940 U.S. Census is 100% indexed.

You can now <a href="http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-5555585-10456885">search the entire 1940 index for free</a>, all 48 states (Hawaii and Alaska were not states yet) plus territories. A free account is required, but word is that Ancestry will make this index free through 2013.

According to Ancestry.com:

<blockquote>Our indexing came up with 134,395,545 people counted. Most reports on the 1940 census give the U.S. population as 132 million and change, so you may be wondering where the extra 2 million people came from. Two words: Puerto Rico. OK, and Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Panama Canal Zone. They were all included in the 1940 U.S. census and add another 2.1 million or so records to the final count.</blockquote>

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