Searching the 1940 U.S. Census - Who Has What

Lots has been happening since the 1940 U.S. Census went live yesterday morning. As most of you know, it's not indexed yet so you have to search by location. The good news is that the census is free to search

And there have been problems. NARA's site went down within the first few hours of use. Over 22 million hits in 3 hours tends to do that to servers! They've now had over 37 million hits since 9:00 a.m. yesterday. Wow.

Other sites uploading the census images also had problems which they are working to correct. But let's talk about what sites have census images online.

NARA has all states uploaded and they also have an E.D. finder to help you narrow your search. If you use Steve Morse's One Step Unified 1940 Census ED Finder you will be provided with an automatic link to the correct images on NARA. I've been using Steve's site and so far have only had to search through less than 30 images in each group.

Ancestry.com has this chart online which is updated frequently

State	Image Status
Alabama	Coming Soon!*
Alaska
American Samoa	Completed 4/2/2012
Arizona
Arkansas
California	In Process*
Colorado	Coming Soon!*
Connecticut
Delaware	Completed 4/2/2012
District of Columbia	Completed 4/2/2012
Florida
Georgia	Coming Soon!*
Guam	Completed 4/2/2012
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana	Completed 4/2/2012
Iowa
Kansas	Coming Soon!*
Kentucky	Coming Soon!*
Louisiana
Maine	Completed 4/2/2012
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska	Coming Soon!*
Nevada	Completed 4/2/2012
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York	In Process*
North Carolina	Coming Soon!*
North Dakota
Ohio	In Process*
Oklahoma
Oregon	Coming Soon!*
Panama Canal Zone	Completed 4/2/2012
Pennsylvania	In Process*
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island	Completed 4/2/2012
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee	In Process*
Texas	In Process*
Utah
Vermont	Coming Soon!*
Virgin Islands	Completed 4/2/2012
Virginia	In Process*
Washington	In Process*
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

*Imaging status was updated at 9:20 am MDT, 03 Apr 2012

FamilySearch.org  had the following states online as of 2 p.m. EDT: Alabama | Colorado | Delaware | Florida | Kansas | Oregon | Virginia

MyHeritage has images and their blog states that the following States are ready for searching: California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Missouri Wyoming and Rhode Island.