Even though the 1940 Federal Census won't be released until 2012, there's no reason for not starting your preparations for accessing it. The National Archives has a web page you'll want to look at. Contained are a list of the questions asked, finding aids, videos used to train enumerators,finding aids, and other useful articles. http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/census/1940/ Peggy Villneff Youngs