Genealogy

  P1 Population and Housing So far I have focussed on people I know of. I should verify thier ages, birth places, work, industry . I should also see if I can chase down an agriculture questionaire... Ancestry I have discovered shoebox for saving those census entries that I could not tie to the abbreviated tree. I have submitted name changes for the P1 forms I have found of interest. I have added a few since round 1. 1950 census archive.gov I went back and found urls that were more specific to the sheets of interest. I also caught up on the transcriptions for this tool. familysearch Not yet indexed internally. Tried seach ancestry records. Did get results in ancestry with no obvious way to cross link between tools. While there may be ways to deal with it, I happily procrastinate until it is available in a way that does not require it. This broader search criteria may be good for those I have yet to locate. Recording in GRAMPS I asked for help with my GRAMPS issues on discourse . I f...

During the conference, Rootstech 2022 https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/home, there was frequent mention of 1950 census information becoming available to the public April 1, 2022.  A collaboration between familysearch and ancestry with artificial intelligence (AI) to read the images and transcribe them, was  an exciting innovation since the 1940 data became available. My focus was on other things at the time, but it is possible to catch many lectures now. Today I found the most useful search term was 1950, as I did not want to pull in other countries and the titleing was inconsistant.    Lisa Louise Cooke suggests preparation:   https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/session/5-ways-to-prepare-to-use-the-1950-us-federal-census  Find people in your tree   Get thier addresses  learn the forms and questions https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/questionnaires/1950_1.html  Figure out Enumeration Districts (ED) and f...