CensusGenie: Down to the Wire 1950 Census Prep
DearMYRTLE, Russ Worthington
Content
Welcome
1m 59s
Speaker's Introduction
2m 35s
Introduction
1m 37s
Importance
14m 13s
OCR & Indexing
5m 23s
What We Can Do Now
8m 52s
One-Step Tool
17m 12s
Education
6m 49s
Announcements / prizes
3m 56s
Questions / answers
9m 28s
After-webinar party
9m 31s
About this webinar
For over a year we've met monthly and are now ready to meet weekly in prep for the release of the 1950 US Federal Census. You can play catch up by joining Cousin Russ and Myrt and discover strategies for finding ancestors in an unindexed image collection.
About the speakers
DearMYRTLE is the nom de plume of Pat Richley-Erickson, author of the award-winning DearMYRTLE Genealogy Blog, consistently among the top 5 family history blogs internationally, where the focus is beg...
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Russ Worthington lives in the beautiful Northwest corner of New Jersey that most people don't know exists in his beautiful state (no exit numbers). He started "collecting his ancestors" about 15 years...
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Comments (177)
I am sure that military peeps were enumerated. I will suggest that is was done by the personnel office of the base where they were stationed. I happened to be on active duty and stationed overseas in 1980. I don't remember any questions being asked, so the personnel office would have Had to be the one doing it. As far as that goes, a couple hundred thousand peeps and their dependents enumerated in one dump. Done.
On the government site it provides photos (not actual blank forms) of the 1950 blank census forms, one of which specifically notes it's for military, etc. Perhaps they meant they weren't enumerated on the main form? I also questioned the inference that 500,000 people were missed.
Thanks for the info and explanations.....helped and answered some questions I had. You two are so informative...thank you. Cheri Howard
The Steve Morse One-Step site with its 1950 ED tools and essays was down for 51 hours due to a problem with the hosting service. It's up and hopefully remains up. Sorry for the inconvenience and sorry that DearMYRTLE had to face that during a live demonstration. Joel Weintraub Dana Point
Myrtle & Russ, thank you, for imparting your years of experience working on the Census. In particular the 1950 Census. I look forward to joining your meeting this evening. Geoff, thank you for walking us through how to look up the census records for family on Legacy in the After Partay & leading us, by hosting into so many great genealogy subjects on MyHeritage.
Thank you for showing the insights of the 1950 census
The presentation was most informative, helpful, as well as exciting! Looking forward to April! Thank you Myrt, Cousin Russ & Geoff!
Very informative and will be very helpful. Thank you Myrtle and Cousin Russ for sharing your time and hard work to get us prepared for the 1950 census!
This was a great webinar. I can't wait for the release of the 1950 census. Thanks for everyone.