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In 1940, Ronald Reagan and his wife paid $135 in rent, he worked 35 hours the last week in March, and the couple lived next door to two men on one side and a champion bridge player lived two doors away. Whether World War II-era celebrity history, or family history is of interest, the newly unveiled 1940 census archive promises to be a fun historical adventure-- when the site is not crashed. The site, a treasure trove of information – with 3.8 million pages of detailed family and individual data from the 1940 census, was released today for the first time. There's just one problem: That long-buried treasure is now proving difficult -- if not impossible -- to open.