Follow this link! If you already know where the family lives, perhaps because you've got their address from the 1940 census or a collection of letters, you may be able to go to the ENUMERATION DISTRICT before there are indexes on databases. THE ENUMERATION DISTRICT (ED) WILL LIKELY BE A DIFFERENT NUMERICAL CODE THAN THE 1940 because of a surge in population!
The concerns of the nation have changed since 1940 and there are some surprises.
This is the era in which people whose parents lived in immigrant ethnic ghettos are expanding out into the suburbs as they marry. Housing is actually affordable. Huge tracks of land are being turned into zones of single-family dwellings. Veterans can get low interest rates to buy homes on the GI bill. Women, many who worked in factories previously, are being encouraged to be stay-at-home wives and mothers.
Question of when it will be indexed. I'd give it about six months. ****
BABYBOOMERS!
More posts on this subject coming up!
Click on the tab Genealogy Help - 1950 Census to bring up the series!
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*** addition February 14, 2022
The NATIONAL ARCHIVES 1950 CENSUS PROJECT IS also using a form of non-human -technology to provide INDEXING and the public will be able to correct information they find for the pages that did not digitalize well due to their condition. This is similar to the FamilySearch site that also offers registered users the easy ability to change surnames that are misspelled and so on. Unfortunately, it also allows people to change correct information to incorrect information if they so desire.
