1950 U.S. Census – The Family History Guide Blog

August 8, 2022

New: 1950 Census Tools in The Family History Guide

The 1950 United States Federal Census, while not yet fully indexed on some sites, is now being accessed by genealogists and researchers around the world. We’ve added resources in The Family History Guide to help you get started with the 1950 Census in your research, with links to helpful articles, forms, and records for finding your ancestors in the Census....

Research

June 5, 2022

MyHeritage Census Helper™ Gets a Major Upgrade

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. MyHeritage Census Helper™ Quoting from a press release: Just before the release of the 1950 U.S. Census in April 2022, we released the Census Helper™, a tool that scans your family tree and compiles a list of your relatives who are very likely to be found in census records....

MyHeritage/Technology

May 29, 2022

Update: 1950 U.S. Census and FamilySearch

As you may know, volunteers have recently been busy indexing records from the 1950 U.S. Census to get them ready for posting on FamilySearch and other sites. In a new development, computer technology is now handling an increased role in the indexing efforts, so volunteers can cover more ground. Here’s the announcement from FamilySearch: “FamilySearch and Ancestry have evaluated the...

FamilySearch

April 10, 2022

1950 U.S. Census Project Moving Rapidly Forward

Note: This article was published previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site. If you go to the FamilySearch 1950 U.S. Census Project page at https://www.familysearch.org/getinvolved/1950 you will see that four states have been completed and that only two more are open right now (as of the date of this post). Checking handwriting recognition from Ancestry.com is a different experience from indexing. The...

Ancestry/FamilySearch

Tag: 1950 U.S. Census

New: 1950 Census Tools in The Family History Guide

MyHeritage Census Helper™ Gets a Major Upgrade

Update: 1950 U.S. Census and FamilySearch

1950 U.S. Census Project Moving Rapidly Forward