More states have been indexed. I think that brings it to 36, but no Illinois, the Rodney Dangerfield of states.
That’s a high priority state at the moment, along with Michigan. I’m up to 5,000 line entries at this point.
I too, am frustrated about the obvious stupidity in the released records of the 1940 census.
HOW are we supposed to know in which “Enumerator District” our parents lived in 1940? I know the city and even the street name, but who out there even knows in which “Enumerator District” you live in now? I don’t.
I subscribe to Ancestry.com, and am waiting for their “busy bees” to sort it all out. Of course, California will be the very last state they tackle, as usual.
It’s not Ancestry, it’s Family Search (the LDS website). They work together, however. California has already been completed, as far as I can tell, but perhaps the data needs some sort of additional work. All the input has go through an arbitration process, which means every piece of information has to be looked at for accuracy, and corrected if necessary.
I think some of that is if they hadn’t moved since 1930. My in-laws in Chicago were living in the same place, so I just went to the 1930 census and found the 1930 ED, and from there found what the ED was in 1940. If they weren’t in the same place and you don’t know the cross streets, you can wait or just start looking page by page. I remember doing that on microfilm because my g-g-grandparents weren’t indexed under their real names in 1850.
An update: it looks like all the states have been indexed by volunteers. Or at least I’m not seeing any more census downloads at level one. New Jersey was the last one. I’m sure there is still a lot of arbitration going on and other administrative things before all states will be available in indexed form, however.