FINDING THOSE 1950 CENSUS ENUMERATION DISTRICTS ASAP! HELP FROM GENEALOGY FRIENDS STEPHEN P. MORSE and JOEL WEINTRAUB

STEVE MORSE ORG 1950 CENSUS ED DISTRICT FINDER - BIG HELP! 

I've posted links to the ever-expanding web site that is the work of these two men - and several other people - over the years.  I first learned about them when they were working on how to mine the Ellis Island site. 

The site offers a way to get the ENUMERATION DISTRICTS for the 1950 census - as well as the other United States census - in an easier way.

Even the National Archives of the United States recommends their site.

Getting Ready for the 1950 Census (stevemorse.org)

Click on the tab  Genealogy Help - 1950 Census to bring up the series!

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Note: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES is using non-human technology to index this census.  However, the technology may not be able to accurately "see" pages that are faded and cannot correct misspellings.  The last update on that was from mid-December. 

TWO MORE YEARS FROM TODAY'S DATE : THE 1950 CENSUS

STEVE MORSE and JOEL WEINTRAUB on the 1950 CENSUS - YOU WON'T FIND NAMES!

72 years of privacy for census was determined long ago when 72 years was one long life.  I sometimes wonder if this will be changed as our lifespans increase.

You can read the entire paper put out by these two gentlemen who have helped genealogists get through databases such as ship records and past census.

When the 1950 is first released you'll have to search page by page through Enumeration Districts until the massive undertaking of listing by name - indexing - happens.

The U.S. population after World War II was BOOMING (as in Baby Boomer) so while I have no doubt it eventually will be done, you may not want to wait another two to four years.

I remember when the 1940 came out.  I headed for my nearest Family History Center of the Latter Day Saints and I sat there for hours searching certain records in New Jersey... And what I proved weeks into it was that the first-generation immigrants and their children were no longer living where they had been in 1930, no longer in ethnic ghettos but out to the suburbs, even to other counties and states, some in old age homes.

I imagine the 1950 will show this movement into suburbs and other counties and states even more so. So many GI's got houses on the GI bill which afforded them small homes in the burbs!

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Click on the tab  Genealogy Help - 1950 Census to bring up the series!