Below are the 30 collections that will be opened up for free between December 26-29th. This represents more than 300 million select records from collections added or updated in 2012. This has been a great year for content, and we want to give everyone an opportunity to search these records for free. The 1940 U.S. Census represents 134 million records that were indexed and are now searchable on Ancestry.com (These records will be free on Ancestry.com through 2013). Almost 9 out of 10 Americans have a relative in the 1940 Census, making this a great resource to start your family history journey.
To access these records, visit Ancestry.com/2012.
Included in the 1940 U.S. Census collection are the new fields that are now indexed and searchable. Though we are not done indexing all of the fields that we plan to, you can now enjoy the index for the following fields:
· House owned or rented
· Value of home or monthly rental if rented
· Attended school or college
· Highest grade completed
· Employment code
· Hours worked the week prior to the census
· Duration of employment
· Occupation
· Class of worker
· Occupation code
· Weeks worked in 1939
· Income
· Income from other sources
Two individuals from each page were asked additional questions and those fields have been indexed as well:
· Father birth place
· Mother birth place
· Native language
· Veteran
· If child, is veteran father dead
· Military Service
· Usual occupation
· Usual industry
· Usual class of worker
· Usual occupation code
· If a women have they been married more than once
· Women age at first marriage
· Number of children ever born
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