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.
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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
Wonderful presentation and answers to questions!
Great after party, learnt a few new things to do with my Legacy software I had not tried before.
Bravo!! Thanks so much for all the information.
Very informative re 1950 census which will be different from other census
Very thorough.