Immediately after the release of records last year, many of us rushed to find people who were enumerated on April 1, 1950. Still, I have yet to find a couple of dozen ancestors, so I'm going to redo my Census searches again on multiple sites, focusing on this one point in time.
At top, I'll use the Ancestry hints to see what that site has already found for ancestors in my family trees. To be thorough, I won't just rely on hints--I'll also specifically search the database "1950 United States Federal Census" with creative surname spelling.
On MyHeritage, I'll search for missing ancestors in the database titled "1950 United States Federal Census." Why? Because MyHeritage and Ancestry indexed this Census differently, I have a better chance of finding "missing" ancestors if I try both sites.
Of course, Family Search is always free to search, with the 1950 US Census available here.
I've also been using other sources, including phone directories, newspaper mentions, and vital records, to locate these ancestors and their families in the mid-20th century. But I would like to have the Census records so I can compare with previous Census answers about age, citizenship, occupation, and so on.
With a focused search, I expect to cut the number of ancestors "missing" from this Census to only a handful!
Good luck. I have a few to find still as well.
ReplyDeleteI only had a handful of people to search for in 1950. Hope you find all your missing family. Could some of them been unlucky enough to move during the census enumeration, thereby missing the enumerator at their old and new homes?
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