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<span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Released by the US National Archives today, April 1, 2022.</span><br>
<a href="https://1950census.archives.gov/"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">1950 Census - Home | 1950 Census (archives.gov)</span></a><br>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">From the NYT: </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/us/census-data-1950.html?fbclid=IwAR0MFxmS0HBdlJxcbsU5sJuAoBgGZ0eEkV0J_4ME1JQDeV0vz2B3E8ra_MI"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Seven
Decades Later, the 1950 Census Bares Its Secrets - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">...the 1950 list was exhaustive — up to</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.archives.gov/research/census/1950/questions-asked" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;text-decoration:underline 1px solid rgb(50, 104, 145);color:rgb(50, 104, 145)"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">38
questions</span></a><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">, from mundane queries about age, sex and race to deeper dives into people’s occupations, incomes, military status, education and ancestry. Married
women were asked how many children they had borne, and children born between January and April of 1950 were</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://historyhub.history.gov/community/genealogy/census-records/blog/2021/04/19/1950-census-infant-cards-and-the-special-infant-enumeration-study" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;text-decoration:underline 1px solid rgb(50, 104, 145);color:rgb(50, 104, 145)"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">tallied
on special “infant cards”</span></a><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">— another 17 questions long.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">The infant cards were not retained. But answers from the census forms were coded onto punch cards and tabulated, for the first time ever, on a UNIVAC I computer, 16,000
pounds and 5,000 vacuum tubes of calculating muscle. Then the census forms were photographed, transferred to nearly 6,400 microfilm rolls and </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">shipped to the National Archives for
a 72-year rest. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The rolls contain only the front side of the census forms. The reverse, which held answers to a litany of questions about the condition of places where respondents
lived, were not preserved.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">The images being released on Friday are digitized versions of the microfilm records that have been scanned with special optical character recognition software to locate
and translate handwritten names and addresses into searchable text.<br>
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The for-profit genealogical firm Ancestry.com plans to immediately download and scan the census forms using its own character-recognition software. Then </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.familysearch.org/1950census/" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size: 1.25rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; text-size-adjust: 100%; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(50, 104, 145); color: rgb(50, 104, 145);"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Family
Search, </span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; line-height: normal;">a nonprofit group sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, intends to marshal volunteers to inspect and
correct the results, a process that is likely to take several months.</span></p>
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