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This project was for anyone who was indexing the 1950 census and wanted to represent WikiTree. I want to thank my fellow teammates for a very rewarding and experience. I have gained several friends and hope to collaborate with them for years to come.
We loved working together to shine WikiTree’s light!
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Name | Location And/Or Surname |
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Barbara (Baker) Mead | Sacramento County and Sutter County in Northern California. |
Sarah (Barrila) Fergione | Connecticut and Boston area |
Brett Birge | |
Lynnette (Blevins) Hettrick | Twin Cities area and/or in Meriden, Waterbury, Connecticut. |
Eileen Bradley | |
Paula (Brewer) Franklin | |
Carol Burnett | |
Linda (Carruth) Peterson | Connecticut or Massachusetts |
Sandy (Craig) Patak | West Virginia + Georgia + Chisago County, MN |
Pam (Dale) Fraley | Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio |
Jacob Davis | Mississippi |
Ambar Díaz | Dayton, Ohio and Ponce, Puerto Rico |
Lisa (Dobihal) Roberts | Location And/Or Surname |
Julie (Fiscus) Ricketts | Location And/Or Surname |
Nicci (Flint) Hartland | Delaware full state and Sapwell surname |
Vicky (Freeth) Majewski | Location And/Or Surname |
Nanette (Gahn) Pezzutti | US Virgin Islands, New York & New Jersey |
Linda (Gassen) Robin | Louisiana |
Steven Greenwood M.S. | Sauk County, Wisconsin |
Lora Hand | Mainly Ohio - Hand and Barnett. |
A. Horn | Tuscarawas and Stark Counties in Ohio |
Janine Isleman | Upper Cumberland Plateau, in Tennessee |
Lynette Jester | Arkansas and/or other southern states |
Miyako Jones | Lafayette County, Mississippi. Focusing on Abbeville. |
Doyle Keith | Owen County, Kentucky |
R (Kelly) Malone | Montana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington state and Cali Bay Area. |
Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy | Location And/Or Surname |
Michelle Ketcham | |
Carole (Kirch) Bannes | Knox and Coshocton Counties, Ohio. |
K Kolk | |
Deb (Langsdorf) Gunther | Milwaukee County, Wisconsin |
Carrie (Linstrom) Pau | Nebraska, Colorado, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, California. |
Patty (Luker) LaPlante | Washington, Arkansas, Virginia |
Susan McNamee | The New England states |
Sherrie Mitchell | Michell Line / Virginia (Plus) |
Gregory Morris | Location And/Or Surname |
LaMyra Morton | Location And/Or Surname |
Lukas Murphy | Kentucky |
Jody Rodgers | hometown/county in Ohio |
James Rugh | Location And/Or Surname |
Bradford Sanders | Starting in Florida. |
Kay (Sands) Knight | |
BJ Secrest | Virginia as well as other locations |
Karen Stewart | Upshur and Ritchie Counties in West Virginia and Orange County in California |
Cathie Stumpenhaus | Oregon, Washington, Idaho & California |
Nancy Thomas | Oregon and Washington |
Kathy (Urbach) Nava | New York, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, Oregon, and California |
Jan (Wall) Wall-Buker | Indiana |
Elaine (Weatherall) Martzen | North Carolina and Texas |
Pam (White) Wade |
Several of us are continuing to work the census and add the families we are reviewing to Wikitree. If you are still interested let us know and we will be glad to get you started.
Here is an example of how We are using the 1950 census to add people to the Wikitree. William Richard Rudd (1876-1953). With just his profile I will be able to add a minimum of 30 people to Wikitree and eventually connect them to the global tree.
- 1950 Census Social Media Profiles Download and then upload to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and make sure to include the link to WikiTree. :)
- Familysearch Get involved or you can get the app in your App Store.
- Karen found us a couple of helpful links this morning. The 1950 Census Community Project Facebook Group.
- There is also a FAQ page: The Familysearch FAQ Page.
- Kathy found us The 1950 Census Instructions on YouTube.
- The digital file is over 165 terabytes of data.... that is over 10 times the size of the 1940 Census!
- Baby BOOM! This Census is the first appearance of the Baby Boomers.
- This is the first time people are asked if they owned a TV. In the 1930 Census, it was when a radio set was asked.
- All US Territories were included in this Census (Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, & US Virgin Islands).
- Expats are in the 1950 Census for the first time.
- 40,000,000 people were born during during the post–World War II baby boom. We call them The Baby Boomers. and they are included for the very first time in the 1950 Census.
- The 1950 Census will not be a true indexing, like in the past, because it will be scanned with the text already converted to digitial. BUT, that doesn't mean there is not anything to do because it is up to the humans to ensure it's accuracy. 😃. To me, this is great because the data gets to us faster and with each of us focusing in on a particular location (down to the family level) of our area(s) of expertise, we can ensure the accuracy of the digitizing. Even during the Pandemic, the National Archives is getting the job done! Per: Sandy (Craig) Patak
- 1950 Census Indexers Apr 21, 2022.
- 1950 Census Indexers Apr 7, 2022.
- WikiTree Census Indexers Apr 4, 2022.
- Interested in the 1950 Census? Mar 4, 2022.
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I also FINALLY found my Dad's family today while reviewing families. I did my mom's family the very first day the census released, but my dad's family would not come up no matter what or where I searched.
Thanks! Pam
3 Families Reviewed 1,088 Names Reviewed 5 Headers Reviewed
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And now I have to move on. :-)
I appreciate it Pam
I have a “contact” at NARA, and when I asked, this is the answer I got from her:
“ As for the different format for some Census pages, the Census Bureau in 1950 tested self-enumeration with household forms in several counties in Michigan and Ohio, including Coshocton, Ohio, which you noted. You can read more about these alternative enumeration procedures in a blog post from our Census subject matter expert on History Hub.”
edited by Pam (Dale) Fraley
Talk at Roots Tech about 1950 Census. Shows what pages should look like
edited by Linda (Carruth) Peterson
https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/session/the-1950-u-s-census-and-you-main-stage
edited by Pam (Dale) Fraley
1. The digital file is over 165 terabytes of data.... that is over 10 times the size of the 1940 Census! Baby BOOM! This Census is the first appearance of the Baby Boomers.
2. This is the first time people are asked if they owned a TV. In the 1930 Census, it was when a radio set was asked.
3. All US Territories were included in this Census (Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, & US Virgin Islands).
4. Expats are in the 1950 Census for the first time.
The 1950 Census will not be a true indexing, like in the past, because it will be scanned with the text already converted to digitial. BUT, that doesn't mean there is not anything to do because it is up to the humans to ensure it's accuracy. :)
To me, this is great because the data gets to us faster and with each of us focusing in on a particular location (down to the family level) of our area(s) of expertise, we can ensure the accuracy of the digitizing.
Even during the Pandemic, the National Archives is getting the job done!
ETA: I'll probably be focusing mostly on Illinois.
edited by Julie (Fiscus) Ricketts
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/pc-04/pc-4-02.pdf