I've kind of had fun with the need to browse (like the old days of cranking through films at NARA and the historical society)...I've found neighbors from when I was a kid that I wouldn't have been looking for in a search. The EDs are sometimes hard to locate -- my grandparents in York, PA lived on a corner property and even though I knew the address and cross street the corner property wasn't in the ED I thought it should be from the description on the NARA site. When I did locate my grandparents I also noticed the notation in the left margin of the page that the next door neighbor, Walter Lindemuth, was not home when the census taker came through so my grandmother provided the information about him...I wonder how accurate that is? But at least we know when the info didn't come from the direct source in this census. Joan In a message dated 4/7/2012 7:00:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ronboy1@charter.net writes: The 1940 census is neat to say the least. The ED findability leaves some to be desired but I am sure that will be worked out when indexing is complete. Very easy to read. Good contrast. I tried the 1930 Civil District for a possible lead to the 1940 ED. Nope not even close. Began dive bombing the various ED's because I couldn't make heads or tails out of the map of the EDs. Big problem here was there were no boundaries shown on the map. As luck would have it, the last ED on the list was the one. I was stumbling through and was beginning to lose hope but got to page 33 of 46 and lo and behold, there I was!!. I learned the enumerator worked our side of the road and several pages later picked up the neighbor across the road so as we have always been told, the next person on the census might or might not be neighbors. Learned a couple important things. Neighbor 'Goober's real name was Irene and neighbor 'Mickey' was really Rebecca. Appears everyone was there. I sure hope they all have lived long enough to spot themselves on a census. A real kick!!! Happy Easter everyone Ron