CensusGenie: Down to the Wire 1950 Census Prep

DearMYRTLE, Russ Worthington
Feb 2, 2022
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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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  1. DS
    Darlene Sye
    3 years ago

    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.

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      Marijo Wakley
      3 years ago

      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.

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    Cheryl Howard
    3 years ago

    Thanks for the info and explanations.....helped and answered some questions I had. You two are so informative...thank you. Cheri Howard

  3. JW
    Joell Weintraub
    3 years ago

    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

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  4. JS
    judy sheldon
    3 years ago

    Wonderful presentation and answers to questions!

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  5. BB
    Brian Boneham
    3 years ago

    Great after party, learnt a few new things to do with my Legacy software I had not tried before.

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  6. WV
    Webinar Viewer
    3 years ago

    Bravo!! Thanks so much for all the information.

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  7. WV
    Webinar Viewer
    3 years ago

    Very informative re 1950 census which will be different from other census

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  8. JS
    Julie D SINGLETARY
    3 years ago

    Very thorough.

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