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The websites I have been directed to are bogged down. Not too surprised. There's probably tons of people looking. The archives site has been of no use at this early stage. I was hoping to find some information about my grandfather, whom I believe lived in Detroit in 1940, but have been able to find nothing. They make it sound like the search is really easy but it looks useless unless you know the address of where your family lived.
I managed to get on the Nat'l Archives site, waited for several hours for census to download. I thought that maybe by the evening, it would have appeared. Unfortunately, my Dad unplugged my computer. I'll never know if it came up. Trying now, I can't even get to the site because the server is too busy. I'll try again in the wee hours.
It's 1930 all over again. Same thing happened ten years ago. Same thing happened when they first released the Ellis Island Database.
All us genealogists have to be patient a little while longer.
A great resource to locate 1940 ED's from an address is www.stevemorse.org Just click on "unified 1940 census ED finder" towards the middle of the page.
You guys are so funny. The release date is the release by the U.S. government. Nobody (Ancestry included) gets it "early" to pre-index it. I'm astounded that it's even digitized at this point, much less accessible and certainly not indexed.
I'm astounded that it's even digitized at this point, much less accessible and certainly not indexed.
It is 2012 after all.
I've been able to download the 1940 enumeration district where my relatives were in 1930, and of course they moved! LOL Got to keep searching. Still can't view the sheets online yet.
When I type in the EN, I'm only getting a one-page screen that lists the boundaries of the neighborhoods that they were covering. I don't see any specific names or addresses at all.
That's the description, you have to click on the Census Schedule link.
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Same thing happened ten years ago. Same thing happened when they first released the Ellis Island Database.
It is 2012 after all. 
