I watched an online session on the 1950 US census release this afternoon. It was given by Dear Myrtle and her Cousin Russ. You can watch it for free until Feb. 9th on Legacy Family Tree Webinars. After that date you will have to have a paid subscription to view it. One thing that Myrtle …
The 1950 US census will be out on April first. It will be indexed by the National Archives. (see update on this in this post). When the 1940 census was released in 2012 there was a race by Ancestry, FamilySearch, and MyHeritage. Ancestry won the race but they used overseas indexers and I think the …
What is April 1, 2022? No, I’m not thinking about April Fool’s Day. It is the day that the 1950 US census will be released. It was microfilmed a long time ago and has already been digitized from that microfilm. After having been confidential for 72 years it will be widely available just a little …
Yesterday (10/13) the US Supreme Court approved a request from the Justice Department to end the 2020 census instead of continuing the count until the end of the month. Just a few hours later the Census Bureau set a deadline of Oct. 15th for mail in forms to be postmarked. Also they will stop accepting …