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Jump-starting Your 1950 Census Research with Census Helper™

Uri Gonen
May 24, 2022
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About this webinar

Ready to explore the newly released 1950 U.S. Census records? MyHeritage’s free Census Helper™ tool is the perfect place to start. Uri Gonen, SVP Product Manager at MyHeritage, will introduce you to this handy tool he developed and show you how to use it to organize and focus your census research.

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Uri Gonen
Uri Gonen has been working at MyHeritage since 2005 where he took on different challenges and roles in product development and product management. He has been part of the wild journey of MyHeritage from a small startup to a dominant company in the
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    Jenny Marsden
    2 years ago

    Another excellent presentation from the My Heritage collection/folks. Very excited about trying out the Census Helper Tool.

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    Graham Lowe
    2 years ago

    Uri, thank you for your very informative presentation. It is great to know that MyHeritage keeps offering up new tools to help us with our genealogical research.

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    Sherry Megredy
    2 years ago

    Great

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    Rita Abramoski
    2 years ago

    A very good explanation of the census helper. I love the live demonstrations and the explanation of all the icons.

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    Bon Johnson
    2 years ago

    Very good explanation of the new tool.

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    Therese Beckman
    2 years ago

    Thank you to Legacy Family Tree Webinars for bringing us such a variety of state of the art tools to expand our research.

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    Wendy OKEEFE
    2 years ago

    Very interesting. Will certainly use this new tool.

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    Jan & Greg Niehoff
    2 years ago

    Wonderful, innovative tool. expertly presented!

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