22 September 2021

WHAT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE 1950 CENSUS


ARCHIVES GOV : 1950 CENSUS ON TRACK!   The good news is that while Covid had some impact National Archives workers had started working on this as soon as the 1940 was released and had already digitalized most all the images.

EXCERPT: While most of the digitalization was complete, the work of matching images to the correct enumeration districts had not started before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the National Archives Building, where the work was supposed to be done.

All staff working with census data need special clearances because the information is restricted until the public release, and they need the ability to access the images that are stored on a secure server.  With employees working at home and the 2022 deadline looming the approach to this part of the project had to be completely reimaged in terms of a remote workforce.  Kluskens has also been working on preparing family historians for this release  Her long career at the National Archives means that she brings a wealth of experience and understanding to the records. She has been sharing that with an online audience through a 1950 census blog post series on HISTORY HUB.

Searching for HISTORY HUB and Kluskens I brought up some of her posts.  You can do this and likely there will be more to read.

HISTORY HUB and Kluskens as NATIONAL ARCHIVES SEARCH

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