1casvelyn
Anyone found anything interesting yet?
I admit, I did not have high hopes for the preliminary indexing, handwriting being the beast that it is. I was pleasantly surprised. Within 30 minutes this morning* I found my four grandparents and 7 of 8 great-grandparents (one great-grandfather was already dead) on the NARA Census site: https://1950census.archives.gov/
I'm working on great-aunts and -uncles now, although I did decide to leave my Great Aunt Mary until later. Her full name was Mary Jones. :)
*before coffee even, which makes it all the more impressive
I admit, I did not have high hopes for the preliminary indexing, handwriting being the beast that it is. I was pleasantly surprised. Within 30 minutes this morning* I found my four grandparents and 7 of 8 great-grandparents (one great-grandfather was already dead) on the NARA Census site: https://1950census.archives.gov/
I'm working on great-aunts and -uncles now, although I did decide to leave my Great Aunt Mary until later. Her full name was Mary Jones. :)
*before coffee even, which makes it all the more impressive
2Taphophile13
I'm browsing that site now and I just found my great-grandfather, grandparents and uncle. Not a bad start.
Good luck with Mary Jones. I have a Margaret Jones to try to hunt down someday.
Good luck with Mary Jones. I have a Margaret Jones to try to hunt down someday.
3DCBlack
Thanks for the link! I found my parents, grandparents, and a couple great grandparents. There were a few minor issues with the AI generated text, so I provided transcriptions for my relatives.
4Keeline
In one of the Facebook groups that I administer, a scholar I know found Walt Disney and his family.
I expected that it would be on Ancestry on the release date but apparently that is taking time. It is interesting to pop in to the NARA link and do some spot checking. It will probably be Summer before this is good.
James
I expected that it would be on Ancestry on the release date but apparently that is taking time. It is interesting to pop in to the NARA link and do some spot checking. It will probably be Summer before this is good.
James
5lesmel
Urk. I'm struggling to find my great grandparents after finding both sets of parents/grandparents with ridiculous ease.
Ha! Just found my paternal GGP. I had to ask my dad where his grandparents lived at the time and work backward from the ED Maps. If you have the same trouble I did, these maps are a delight: https://stevemorse.org/census/arc1940-1950edmaps.html?year=1950
Ha! Just found my paternal GGP. I had to ask my dad where his grandparents lived at the time and work backward from the ED Maps. If you have the same trouble I did, these maps are a delight: https://stevemorse.org/census/arc1940-1950edmaps.html?year=1950
6casvelyn
>2 Taphophile13: Nice! Yeah, I'm definitely going to wait for Ancestry to give me a hint on Mary Jones. I'm not even 100% sure which state she was living in at the time.
>3 DCBlack: You're welcome! I'm glad they let us edit it, because some of the text is not the best.
>4 Keeline: The images were on Ancestry about noon yesterday, but yeah the indexing will take a while.
>5 lesmel: Steve Morse's site is awesome! Also, if you have an Ancestry account, they have a map tool that connects a modern street address to the 1950 ED. It doesn't appear to be on Ancestry Library Edition, unfortunately.
>3 DCBlack: You're welcome! I'm glad they let us edit it, because some of the text is not the best.
>4 Keeline: The images were on Ancestry about noon yesterday, but yeah the indexing will take a while.
>5 lesmel: Steve Morse's site is awesome! Also, if you have an Ancestry account, they have a map tool that connects a modern street address to the 1950 ED. It doesn't appear to be on Ancestry Library Edition, unfortunately.
7JohnEThomas
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8Taphophile13
I've now found my maternal grandmother (wasn't sure which state she was living in) and my parents (didn't know their address either)!
9kac522
Has anyone worked on the FamilySearch 1950 Index Review process: https://www.familysearch.org/getinvolved/1950
I've done some for the last few days--fairly easy, but I have a question about the "Review Individual Names" process and not sure where to ask.
I've done some for the last few days--fairly easy, but I have a question about the "Review Individual Names" process and not sure where to ask.
10southernbooklady
I have been having a wonderful time with the 1950 census. Finding relatives, certainly -- and in at least three cases relatives were part of the sample that asked all the extra questions, which was enlightening in that several had more education than I had realized, and at least one had much less.
But I found myself most taken with how easy it was to create a picture of a neighborhood, and to get a sense of the people who lived alongside my grandparents and great-grandparents, great-aunts and uncles, and distant cousins however removed. My great grandfather, who was the librarian at Mt. Union College, lived quite close to the college and must have walked to work every day, something I never knew. He and my great grandmother lived on a little side street with all sorts of other kinds of people -- some laborers, some clerks, some better-heeled. Their next-door neighbor owned a factory that made pipe organs!
Once I realized what I was looking at, I looked up the address where I grew up -- Summit Ave. in Buffalo New York. Of course, my family moved there in the 70s, but my mother and I spent a wonderful afternoon going house by house on the 1950 census, finding the people who were still there when we came, and the people who owned our house before we did, and tracking down the families of neighbors we still keep in touch with. That neighborhood was also very mixed-- bankers and factory workers, teachers and steelworkers. Even some people who were originally refugees.
It all makes America's current predilection for planned, gated and semi-gated communities seem so sterile.
But I found myself most taken with how easy it was to create a picture of a neighborhood, and to get a sense of the people who lived alongside my grandparents and great-grandparents, great-aunts and uncles, and distant cousins however removed. My great grandfather, who was the librarian at Mt. Union College, lived quite close to the college and must have walked to work every day, something I never knew. He and my great grandmother lived on a little side street with all sorts of other kinds of people -- some laborers, some clerks, some better-heeled. Their next-door neighbor owned a factory that made pipe organs!
Once I realized what I was looking at, I looked up the address where I grew up -- Summit Ave. in Buffalo New York. Of course, my family moved there in the 70s, but my mother and I spent a wonderful afternoon going house by house on the 1950 census, finding the people who were still there when we came, and the people who owned our house before we did, and tracking down the families of neighbors we still keep in touch with. That neighborhood was also very mixed-- bankers and factory workers, teachers and steelworkers. Even some people who were originally refugees.
It all makes America's current predilection for planned, gated and semi-gated communities seem so sterile.
