Census of 1940 were released this morning, and on the website of the National Archives of collapsing under load.
About 1.9 million users are in the archive server in the first four hours of data were made public, but many of these users do not go farther than the screen that says: "Prepare Image".
In the archives of "Twitter said testing identified the site can handle the load and the number of visitors was initially shows they are working to resolve the early afternoon Monday.
"We know that it is very difficult," tweeted archives.
Among those who want to see the files were Verla Morris, who could consider themselves a part of living history.
Morris, now in its 100th year, will go to experience a novelty to see your name and details of his life in the files published by the U.S. National Archives after 72 years of the expiry of privacy on the Internet.
"I would be happy to see him there," she said. "I do not think I can surprise me, actually."
Morris is one of more than 21 million people living in the United States and Puerto Rico that were listed in the sixteenth federal decennial census, which documents a tumultuous decade of the 1930s transformed the Great Depression and the migration of black rural South. This distinction he shares with celebrities such as Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman lives.
Morris, who worked on his family history since 1969 and has written six books on its branches, said the census needed for his genealogical work, because often people do not want to give your personal information.
"Many times I just have to wait, maybe they are dying," she said. "Then I'll have all the information for its".
But the census, including names, addresses, and - in case the 1940 census information, income and employment - rich in the long-veiled personal data.
Morris, which includes 100 in August and contacted through the centuries Outreach National Project, said that she worked as a drill operator in Fairfield, Illinois, in 1940, when the census. "I do not remember my census," said Morris, who lives in Chandler, Arizona
If the name index will not be immediately available to search tens of thousands of researchers across the country are expected to hunt monumental family this week through the scanned documents for more detailed information on 132 million people. Access to documents is free and open Internet.
Each decade since 1942, the National Archives has made available records of previous censuses. Some privacy advocates object to the release of large amounts of personal information about living people.
The American Civil Liberties Union, for example, has more than 30 years, is opposed to any general unrestricted release of census records.
Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the ACLU, said the damage may come from combining data from the 1940 census and other rich media.
"Today, computer technology can take information from different sources and combine them in a very high resolution picture of a person's life," he said. "Every piece of information could be just one pixel. But taken together, they become very intrusive. "
A document obtained from the National Archives of the Associated Press at the request of the Access to Information shows that in 2010 the U.S. Census Bureau has raised privacy concerns about disclosure to the 1940 census of the people, which stores data.
Census Bureau spokesman Robert Bernstein said in a letter that concerns the data can be used to harm anyone living today, "such as theft," were released, when the archive date of birth is not authorized or social security numbers would be on file. The question of the census in 1940 asked a sample of more than 6 million people, if they have social security numbers, but does not explicitly specify the number.
Susan Cooper, a spokesman for the National Archives, said the agency did not assess the impact of the confidentiality of records. She said officials do not know the archives of any public complaints about the upcoming release.
Robert Gellman, a consultant and confidentiality of information, said that doubts about the files will be of great importance for the scam because it is easy to obtain personal information.
"There's nobody out there complaining about 70 years writing used against them," he said.
Morris also does not care about the privacy of their publication in 1940.
Genealogy addict by his own admission, she said it was important for people to learn about their ancestors through genealogical research and Census records based on all the time.
"Every family should be interested enough to have a family history," she said.
