Unless something changes, you can view the images at http://1940census.archives.gov/ I have found most of my family without an index. Ron Davis Woodland, CA > I do know that, when I search now at FamilySearch.org, many of the census > images there link to Ancestry.com. So as Randi said, at some point the > 1940 census probably will go the way of previous records and all of them > will require a subscription to some site or other in order to actually view > the images. If I'm not mistaken, there are also some images that link > to Fold3.com, at least some of which require a subscription to view.