Saturday, April 2, 2022

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your 1950 U.S. Census Finds

  It's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun! 


Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:

1)  The 1950 United States Census was released by the U.S. National Archives on Friday, 1 April 2022.  

2)  Did you make a list of your census targets and try to find them in the 1950 census?  How did your plans pay off - did you find everyone, or just some of them?

3) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post. Be sure to leave a link with your answers in a comment.

Here's mine:

I made my list of targets several weeks ago with names, addresses, likely EDs, etc.  I found EDs for 20 of them, and need to do at least 8 more.  

Of the 16 that I searched for, I found 13 of them where I expected them to be, using the National Archives website.  I found the following:

*  Parents Frederick and Betty Seaver in San Diego at 2119 30th Street with my brother and me.  
*  Grandparents Lyle and Emily Carringer, and great-grandmother, Georgianna Auble, in San Diego at 2115 30th Street.
*  Linda's parents, Lee and Edna Leland in San Francisco at 1726 47th Avenue with Linda and her brother.
*  Linda's grandmother, Edna Schaffner in San Francisco at 46 Rivoli Street with daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter.
*  Grandmother Alma Seaver in Leominster, Mass. at 91 Merriam Street.
*  Uncle/aunt Edward and Janet Seaver in Leominster, Mass. at 104 Walnut Street, with their two children.
*  Uncle/aunt Bowers and Ruth Fischer in Leominster, Mass. at 918 Main Street , with their two daughters.
*  Aunt/uncle Irving and Marion Braithewaite in Leominster, Mass. at 90 Main Street with their daughter.
*  Great aunt Emily Taylor and cousins Marshall and Dorothy Chamberlain in San Diego County at 4601 Terrace Drive.
*  2nd cousins Russell and Helen Richmond in Putnam, Windham County, Conn., with their daughter.
*  Cousins Thomas and Helen Richmond in Putnam, Windham, Connecticut.
*  Cousins Richard and Lorraine Richmond in Putnam, Connecticut at 96 Bates Avenue.

I did not find my father's sister, Geraldine Seaver in Leominster, Mass. with her mother like I expected to; she may be in Northampton where she was a teacher in about 1950.  I did not find my father's sister's family - Walter and Evelyn Wood;  the 1950 city directory said they resided at 82 Haverhill Street in Andover, Mass., but the census had someone else at that address.  I did not find my cousin, Virginia Soule with her husband Lewis in Salem, New Hampshire - they may be in Massachusetts.  For those three I will wait until there is a better index on Ancestry , FamilySearch or MyHeritage to try to find them.
 
In almost every case, I failed to find my target persons in the name index.  In almost every case, I had to browse through the known ED to find them.  

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Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 26 March to 1 April 2022

 The following record collections were listed on the Recently Added and Updated List on Ancestry.com during the period from  26 March to 1 April 2022:

The ADDED and Updated record collections are:

1950 United States Federal Census; unindexed records with record images, ADDED 4/1/2022

UK and Ireland, Obituary Index, 2004-2019; indexed records without record images, Updated 3/30/2022

U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 3/30/2022

U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 3/30/2022

Caribbean, Obituary Index, 2003-2019; indexed records without record images, Updated 3/30/2022

Australia and New Zealand, Obituary Index, 2004-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 3/30/2022

Canada, Obituary Collection, 1898-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 3/30/2022

U.S., Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1881; indexed records with record images, Updated 3/28/2022

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The complete Ancestry.com Card Catalog is at   https://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx.  

By my count, there were 1 NEW collections ADDED this past week, per the list above.  There are now 33,142 collections available as of 1 April, an increase of from last week.   

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Disclosure: I receive a complimentary all-access subscription from Ancestry.com, for which I am thankful. Ancestry.com has provided material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and has hosted events and meals that I have attended in Salt Lake City, in past years.

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Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 26 March to 2 April 2022

  I am keeping track of the new and updated historical record collections at FamilySearch   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list) every week.

As of 2 April 2022, there are 3,090 historical record collections on FamilySearch (an increase of from last week):

The new and updated collections this week from FamilySearch are:

Ireland Census, 184115,850Mar 28, 2022


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In order to select a specific record collection on FamilySearch, go to https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list and use the "Filter by collection name" feature in the upper left-hand corner and use keywords (e.g. "church england") to find collections with those keywords.

Each one of the collections listed above has a Research Wiki page (use the "Learn more" link). It would be very useful if the Wiki page for each collection listed the dates for when the collection was added as a new collection and the dates for major updates also.

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