1950 U S Census Release on April 1, 2022

[@dianapocalypse]

Did you like last week's video? Looking to learn more about how to use these records? Check out U.S. Census Records, 1790-1840, Part 1 of 3 (How to Research Your Family Tree) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGalhGWuptGpm68 Keep on climbing your family tree! -Diana, GTV Team

[@Gio_Vanni6143]

Hi, Connie! I just spent about two hours making transcription corrections. I can't wait to look over more images tomorrow.

[@staceybenson2259]

I already found my dad and my grandfather by looking on the National Archives website. I found them in 1950 Okanogan, Washington. Found my dad right off the bat. This is so much fun.

[@hollyvanostrand4292]

I have been an enumerator for three censuses. This video was great fun to watch. thank you.

[@AncestryAimee]

What a great video!! Thanks Connie! Love the old enumerator's movie.

[@GenealogyTV]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@junebutka6571]

Great tips. I have already started capturing the ED district for the areas I expect my ancestors to be in. Mostly rural. The 3 acres of land give me another hint to check out. My Dad was in the service in 1950. Not sure if he will be mentioned if he was stationed overseas at that time.

[@GenealogyTV]

Here is an article that might help. blog.fold3.com/the-1950-u-s-census-and-military-research/

[@thomasfoley8287]

Started searching the 1950 US CENSUS and even transcribed some pages. The interesting thing I found is that my grandparents, and a number of neighbors, were "not at home" that day. Reference is made to "see page 74" which is not in the Enumeration District" page list. It ends at page 33..

[@birdydoo]

My experience too. Hoping to find out how to locate the mysterious "page 74" soon.

[@patriciajrs46]

Good luck.

[@birdydoo]

The thumbnail page numbers do not correspond to the sheet (page) numbers. The sheet number is in the upper right corner of population schedule, eg page 18 may = sheet 72

[@thomasfoley8287]

@@birdydoo Thanks however, I was referring to sheet number in the upper corner rather than the image number when I wrote "page 33", it is sheet 33.

[@mariacapaldi5062]

Thanks Connie, I'm very excited! I of course will not be in it but finding my family and indexing is going to be fantastic and fun!!

[@GenealogyTV]

You are so welcome!

[@Hogan31500]

Can’t wait to show my grandmother her name listed in this census! She was only 1 year old in 1950. Im gonna take a picture of her holding the image with her name on it no matter how corny she may find it! haha

[@suterfire]

I love that!

[@desertpatient]

Thanks for making me fell old....😵‍💫ha ha....

[@brittnew86]

Thank you for this! I'm so excited. My mom was born in 1950, and I've been talking to her about this for months! Haha

[@cyndra680]

Thank you for this video. It helps a lot. I'm so excited!! It's hard to be patient.

[@Pepsipenquin]

Great information and old videos. More excited now.

[@williamlaurencemaheroz]

Hi Connie. Thanks for another excellent video. Just a suggestion about possible future videos...have you done a video on Geni website ? I find it links in well with Family Search and Ancestry for researching difficult to find ancestors. Also another suggestion wpuld be the 1921 UK census released recently

[@addicted2spn789]

Thanks Connie! I can't wait! About 3 hours to go!

[@scottmcgraw5998]

Thanks for another excellent video! All branches of my family tree are represented in the 1950 census for Pratt County Kansas, waiting for me to find them. I am planning to volunteer with FS to check the Ancestry computer in several of the 37 ED"s for that county. In Kansas we had an annual city/county census during that period, listing heads of household and household size. The KS city/county census for 1950 is available on Ancestry. So I know exactly whom to look for, and where to look!

[@jarrellville]

Scott, I did not know that about Kansas. Thank you. Would I find that in the Ancestry card catalog? I am a member.

[@scottmcgraw5998]

@@jarrellville Yes, it is located under "Kansas, U.S., City and County Census Records, 1919-1961". There is a way to access it and other state documents for free, if you have a KS driver's license. It got going fully around 1940 (varies by county). Between 1853 and 1961, it even shows names and ages of individual household members! Extremely useful. I was born in 1960, and have actually found myself in the 1961 census.

[@hoponpop3330]

I remember accessing the 1940 census before it was indexed that census asked where the were in 1935 I knew the town my parents and traced the census to close to my my neighborhood I found my old paper route and trace the families to my house.

[@suzannemcclendon]

I am so excited about this census that I could burst! It is the first census that all three of my parents will be in. :) They were all born in the 1940s. My maternal grandfather spent time in a tuberculosis sanitarium, but I don't know where. Do you know how these types of situations will be handled? It is my understanding that college kids, in this census, were enumerated at the school, not with their parents' households. So, do you think those in hospitals would be enumerated at the hospital or counted for their home addresses? Thanks for all you do to help us with our research. Have a blessed week!

[@GenealogyTV]

Yes! "Enumerators were instructed to enumerate each person at his or her “usual place of residence.” That is normally a simple concept. It’s the place the person considers to be home or would name in reply to the question, “Where do you live?” “As a rule it is the place where the person usually sleeps.” Thus, the enumerator was to count members of the household who were: - Living at home - Temporarily absent “on vacation, visiting, or on business.” - In a hospital but expected to return in a short period of time. - New-born babies who had not yet left the hospital. - Students attending a school below the college level who resided in another place. - Live-in domestic or other employees who slept in the same dwelling unit. - Boarders or lodgers who regularly slept in the same dwelling unit. - Military servicemen stationed in the vicinity who lived and slept off post. (Those on post would be enumerated on post.)" historyhub.history.gov/community/genealogy/census-records/blog/2021/04/07/1950-census-usual-place-of-residence

[@suzannemcclendon]

@@GenealogyTV I understand that it is a simple concept. I am not having trouble understanding the concept. The reason that I had a question about it is that in something else that I saw, the person said in this census, people would be counted where they actually were at the time, so, college kids getting enumerated at the school, etc. I just was not sure how they would handle hospitals/sanitariums. Unlike a college where you can assume a kid will be that semester, you can't assume anything with a hospital stay. Also, if I said something that upset you in another comment, I apologize. That was not my intention at all.

[@scGenMOT]

@@suzannemcclendon, I'm wondering the same thing especially knowing a distant cousin was in a special facility according to what her niece told me. This distant cousin was born with some sort of disability -- perhaps what is now called Downs Syndrome-- and was "institutionalized".

[@suzannemcclendon]

@@scGenMOT Hi Shari, I have not yet been able to find anything definitive about hospitals, sanitariums, asylums, or any institutions like that. I did find what I had read about college kids again. It is on the National Archives site, on their "Questions Asked on the 1950 Census" page. It says this: "College students were enumerated where they lived while attending school, rather than where their parental homes were located. Members of the Armed Forces who slept off post were counted where they slept rather than where they were stationed." So, at least in some cases, the people did not get counted for their usual place of residence.

[@sabrinaqualley5743]

In my searches today I have come across pages listing people in prison, hospitals, and schools, so I suspect the tuberculosis sanitarium would be listed as well. Good luck with your search!

[@patriciascott1717]

I have found some of my relatives on the 1950 images, any suggestion on how to attach it to my Ancestry tree. I am aware of the weblink but want to attach an unindexed image. Thank you.

[@GenealogyTV]

Yeah... I did some digging about this over the weekend. Right now you can only add the weblink on Ancestry. I strongly suspect that will change once all the images are indexed.

[@suellenw561]

I finally found the info I was looking for, thanks to someone else's research that I found on a genealogy site. But do you have any hints on how to search for my ggf's 2nd wife, Nettie West, who lived in VA when there's a town named Nettie in WV? The town always comes up first, of course, for page after page in my browser. There must be others who have a similar problem. Typing -- "nettie west" Virginia -state -- doesn't affect the results.

[@ImNotOld_ImVintage]

In 1950 my father was 9 years old. I recall him saying he moved to Idaho from Nebraska when he was 9. I find no records of him or his parents in either the Idaho or Nebraska census data. What is the likelyhood the family was missed all together? I did find my mother and her parents. Of course the AI did't get the transcription right, so I added transcriptions to the family members I found. Thanks!!

[@judymcmillan5081]

Thanks for great info and fun video clips from 1950. I found my family, but not the “Housing Items” questions. Where are those?

[@sabrinaqualley5743]

I read that the housing questions were on the back side of the form, but only the front was scanned. It is very disappointing.

[@lynnhettrick7588]

My mom had been living with her parents and her sister on a farm in 1950. They moved to the city in 1951 and my uncle was born then.

[@suzee_]

I'm soooo excited !!!!

[@desertpatient]

Thanks bunches

[@ms.maryellencasey7671]

Both of my brothers were born in 1949 and 1950. I came along in 1953.

[@The_CR_Phil]

Connie, can you please make a video to show us how to find people in the 1950 census? I went on the special website and could find almost no one I looked for. Thanks!

[@GenealogyTV]

I'll add it to the list... but I'm still playing with it too. None of us had early access to it, so we're learning too.

[@TravelingBibliophile]

I am curious to see whether my mom’s 2nd cousins were still living in Manhattan or whether they had moved to Kentucky yet (where they retired and died).

[@tracymeyers616]

My paternal grandmother is said to have an enumerator for one or more US Census years; likely 1930, 1940 or 1950. Curious if there is a document available that list who was a census enumerator for a given year in a given location? If there is, how / where does one find it.

[@EclecticHillbilly]

If you happen to know the area, the enumerator's name is on the top of the sheet.

[@tracymeyers616]

@@EclecticHillbilly, yes I’ aware. That was not the focus of my question. I’m more interested in what can be learned, if any thing, from any paper work that a person filled out to be hired, or accepted as a volunteer, by the U.S. census bureau to record the population during a census year. Employee records.

[@varon52]

Should the date @ 1:48 be 1 Apr 2022?

[@GenealogyTV]

In genealogical notes, yest.

[@Camanohal]

So I found my mother in the 1950 census and it shows that she was included in the Agricultural Questionnare with her #. But where do I find this questionnaire to see the information that was documented?

[@EclecticHillbilly]

Good question. I can't find it either.

[@Kptiger82]

On question 12 Mar, Wd,Ed, Sep, Nev. The nev looks like nw instead of nev. I've found several ancestors that are on sample line. Their where a few females also on sample line.

[@cojaysea]

Wow this is interesting. I saw this by accident but because I was born in 1950 it got my attention. Thanks

[@tanikawa4766]

I read a while back about the information it recorded but didn’t know that most of it was destroyed until today. Glad to finally have it but so disappointing at the same time.

[@imp822]

Thank you Connie for all your videos. I have watched a number of them. Can anyone help me though. I have all these people but I just don’t know how to plan what to research. Do I choose just one ancestor and work on their children. I just can’t seem to figure out a plan. I feel overwhelmed.

[@GenealogyTV]

Take a look at your tree. What is that burning question you want to know about, who (target ancestor), what, where, when, and why? What is it you want to know about this target ancestor? Write it down and put it in front of you. This is your research question. Then find every record you can about that one person and their immediate family. Then put all you found in a timeline. If that research doesn't answer your question, spread out to the siblings of your target ancestor. Start with that. You'll like find more research questions from that information.

[@imp822]

@@GenealogyTV , thankyou so much!

[@vanessaclark9303]

One very interesting thing is I see many entries stating "no one at home see page XX". At least that's what I'm seeing looking in Dallas, Texas for my parents. I've never seen this before in a census.

[@GenealogyTV]

Me neither. Perhaps the census taker went there several times and could not get a response. Interesting.

[@Genef2454]

I just checked my census where I lived in Cleveland, Ohio in 1950 and it said, "no one Home" for our address and noticed quite a few entries like that. Did they not go back and in order to find the home owners and get their information? Seems like a lot of missing people otherwise. Where else would I look to get the latest census.

[@EclecticHillbilly]

In some cases it has a note late says "see sheet 71" or whatever. Look up at the top right hand corner and you can see sheet numbers. That may lead you to it or in some cases I still couldn't find anything.

[@GenealogyTV]

Yes... I'm hearing this a lot.

[@barbarahenry3943]

What do you do when the 1950 census states “no one at home see line sheet”? I look toward the back of the pack and my family is still not listed. Where does one go from here? Please do a video about this

[@GenealogyTV]

I’m going to be talking about this in the upcoming episode in a few weeks. Long story short, go to page 76. When they were not at home, the enumerator starts listing callbacks on page 76 and forward. Even if there’s only 16 pages , Go to the end of the roll and work backwards.

[@barbarahenry5682]

@@GenealogyTV Thank you so much. I’ll try it.

[@jplaya2023]

Who's going to be sleep at midnight? Not me

[@addicted2spn789]

Not me!! I can't wait!

[@yaya50]

I should be on an Infant Card March 14th. Sad that all the extra info is just on every 5th family though.

[@Walter_Nicolas]

Hi how're you doing

[@svennielsen633]

In a world of insanity this is the most welcome info on KZbin at this time.

[@dorothywillis1]

I was thrilled when I used the tool to find the ED and the street and house where I lived was on page three! Then came the disappointment, apparently no one was at home and there is a note to go to "sheet 71." What the heck? I think you need to do a video on this sort of thing.

[@patriciascott1717]

I had that statement a couple of times. My thing was my ancestors were added, however the sheet was numbered accordingly with others. The sheet said 71 but the page imaged number wad 19. I noted both information, the sheet number and imaged number.

[@conniejohnson9393]

From what I understand Englands 1921 cencus is out this year as well. Is Ancestry working on getting that info on line now too?

[@Phreek666]

Findmypast has exclusivity to the 1921 census for a set time. Not sure for how long.

[@conniejohnson9005]

@@Phreek666 thanks

[@charlottekerns5633]

I will be excited to see myself and my next younger sister in that census!

[@GenealogyTV]

Very cool.

[@jenniferrogers2492]

The “baby boom” started in 1946, continuing to 1964.

[@KentPetersonmoney]

Is the first census to have the baby boomers. Truly were babies than.

[@FloCreasy]

This will be the first census I am record on.My brother is in this for the first time.

[@colleenrossomando8221]

Where would we find the Agricultural questionnaires?

[@GenealogyTV]

I'm sure that a keyword search for "1950 Ag" or "1950 Agricultural" on NARA, Ancestry, FamilySearch, MyHeritage and the rest will work. Until it is available, I can't say for sure. In short, on NARA you would do a keyword search. On the rest you would go to the Card Catalogs and to the same search.

[@heartstrings1223]

The release was done but no updates on the tree…..

[@GenealogyTV]

Give them time.

[@grumpybear123]

My mom was born in Detroit in 1950, so depending on the date the Census was taken this may be the first Census she appears on.

[@otsari1]

I'm so exited.

[@golf2actual375]

Excuse me, I'm on the leading edge of the baby boom and I was born in 1946. Other than that, good info for us newbies.

[@toniasalways]

Me, too! I know where everyone lived in 1950 so it's not a matter of finding them. We moved in 1950 so I am interested in which address we were at when we were counted.

[@lynnhettrick7588]

WikiTree has a group of volunteers to help confirm and correct information too.

[@MckenzieSchmitz-ii9eo]

There has always been rumblings/secrets about my dad's oldest sister's paternity (she was born about 18 months before my grandparents got married). That aunt, and both grandparents have passed away. My father was born just about 10 days before the 1950 census. I found him, his parents, and his oldest sister. She is listed with her last name as grandma's maiden name. And she is listed as step-daughter. This prompted me to request my state for a copy of her birth certificate (because Kansas doesn't make them public to Ancestry). When it arrived, she has my grandfather's surname as her last name! My grandfather is listed as the father! My grandmother is the informant for the birth certificate! And my grandmother's handwriting signed the parents as "Mr & Mrs ____" (names withheld for anonymity) even though they weren't married! I am trying to get my cousins born to this aunt to submit DNA to help answer this crazy family riddle/secret.

[@andre1987eph]

So what does that census release mean for us researchers?

[@GenealogyTV]

You might find your parents or grandparents living at the time.

[@575bernice]

Please explain the infant card.and why they were only in certain month's

[@GenealogyTV]

Turns out they did not keep them. So we don't have that information. :(

[@toniasalways]

Check out the Nathional archives video here on youtube telling their plans for human input.

[@d.Arbelles]

I put my grandmother's name ....my mom and her 6 siblings are listed but all names including surname are misspelled 😐.

[@GenealogyTV]

Until the indexing is done, you're relying on computers to read the handwriting.

[@dougbaker2755]

This may be a stupid question, but why is the 1950 census just now being released?

[@yaya50]

Census are released only every 72 years.

[@GenealogyTV]

Congress passed a law back in the 1960's (if I recall)... in an effort to protect peoples privacy. I was always taught that 72 years was picked because it was the average life span at the time.... although I read a NARA blog post recently that they could not find documentation of that.

[@patriciajrs46]

I am mad about this release! You can't do a name search at all. Not for at least 6 months!!! You have to search by location, and it's required that you know the enumeration district your ancestor was in!!! What a pain the butt!!!

[@GenealogyTV]

I did a name search in Los Angeles without an ED and found what I was looking for.

[@debbieroot4618]

Found my dad yesterday!

[@GenealogyTV]

Yay!

[@cydkriletich6538]

Baby Boom years 1946 (immediately after WWII) through 1964.

[@galaxyzoogaming5415]

i use ancestry and family search simultaneously i cannot wait until it comes out tomorrow. my father will be 5 on the 1950 census.

[@EclecticHillbilly]

As can be expected, the search by name seldom works at all as the transcription software or whatever they use obviously lacks a lot. As for letting us transcribe, it is mind numbingly frustrating to type in your email address and then have to wait for as much as 30 minutes for a verification code that may or may not ever come. I live in a rural area where my family has lived for close to two centuries. I know all the family names, and in the case of the 1950 census, I actually knew a lot of these people or at least their children, etc. We could be a big help on transcribing names if the system wasn't so ridiculously slow to let us transcribe.

[@irajayrosen4792]

Since I was born in July 1950,I am looking forward to this, nut disappointed that I won't find me. I should point out that the Baby Boom started in 1947/48, as demonstrated by overcrowded public school in my childhood. Most cities ignored the problem because they were aware that new first grade school seats in 1954 or 55 would probably be empty in 1960.

[@Littleboy1976]

This is great news!!!

[@GenealogyTV]

Yes!

[@hoponpop3330]

It’s important because I’m in it hopefully

[@phillygrunt2154]

Philadelphia was right behind Chicago in 1950 ?

[@williamwebb7917]

Chicago did not drop to the third largest city until April 8, 1984, not the 1950’s.

[@sl5311]

What I don't understand is why the 2020 Census was so bereft of detail. It made no sense in this information age.

[@carlaporath7076]

Fantastic, informative video....Great tips !!! I have already documented ED for the counties I am most interested. My parents were married in 1948 so they and my oldest sister, my husband and two brothers-in-law are ones I will be looking for first!!!!!

[@rjb6327]

I just checked it out. Doesn't really tell you much.

[@henrywheeler5661]

On my biological father's page, most of it wasn't filled out. The "enumerator" didn't even put his/her name on it. the right side of the page isn't filled in, person did a very sorry job.

[@margaretcurry8414]

Yes---and sad to see the enumerator put a lot of "Not at home" seems lazy to me

[@suterfire]

Party day!

[@EbenFuller]

They should release the census information after only 50 or 40 years... 70 years is way too long!

[@EclecticHillbilly]

They'd have to change the Constitution to do that plus 70 years is to insure that living people don't have their privacy invaded.

[@susanne1756]

I really don't see the significance in all of these personal questions. Many people like a private lifestyle. These census surveys today don't do much for the American people.

[@Aztec339]

It’s really not about your private life. It has a lot to do with how much federal and state money your home state gets according to its population size. Also for school spending, infrastructure funding and a whole lot of important things people don’t realize. Seems like you didn’t fill out the 2020 one. It has a very detailed explanation. I really don’t think the government will find your life that important to keep tabs on you. Anyway, the feds have all that info anyway. Have a SS number, paid taxes. Those people can find you.

[@seanettecoaxum3269]

If you don't have a name of a biological parent how can you figure out what side belongs to the mother's side on ancestry

[@GenealogyTV]

Take a DNA test then group your DNA matches. I have tones of videos on how to do this.

[@holmes5125]

'...in 1850 every inhabitant was listed by name...' Except most black people.

[@johnricco5366]

NO IDEA WHATS TAKING SO LONG WITH RELEASES OF THESE OLD CENSUSES. ANCESTRY RELEASED THE 1940 CENSUS OVER 10 YEARS AGO!. BY NOW 1950 AND 1960 SHOULD HAVE BEEN RELEASED LONG AGOAND EVEN 1970 SHOULD BE PENDING. RIDICULOUS.

[@MrKroll5]

I believe by law they can only be released after 72 years after it’s taken.

[@johnricco5366]

@@MrKroll5 doesn't make much sense. and the 1940 census was available over 10 years ago. i was born in 1949 so 1950 i would have been a year old.