WTKR

1950 Census records are now available; here's how to make your search successful

The records for the 1950 U.S. Census were just released Friday morning. The National Archives released them just after midnight on April 1, and an agreement was put in place that census records would ...
Business Wire

MyHeritage Becomes First Genealogy Company to Publish Entire 1950 U.S. Census Image Collection, Browsable Free of Charge Now

TEL AVIV, Israel & LEHI, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the leading global service for discovering your past and empowering your future, announced today the complete publication of an image-only ...
Staten Island Advance

Over 6M pages of 1950 Census data released; here’s how to search, what you can find

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – What was the United States like in 1950? Public data is now available that can help you get those answers. After more than seven decades, raw data from the 1950 decennial Census ...
Yahoo

Public release of 1950 census records on April 1, turned out to be a history buff's dream

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dan Cherry is a Lenawee County historian. On Friday, April 1, my genealogy friends and I didn’t get much sleep. Like the rare ...
CNN

Millions of families can now research their history with 1950 US census records

Close to 7 million records from the 1950 US census have been made public. The digital records were released on Friday and are available to the public free of charge at a dedicated website, allowing ...
The New York Times

How to Find Newly Released Census Records From 1950

It is now easy to access information on individuals from that census, but beware of misspelled names. By Michael Wines The National Archives and Records Administration posted millions of records from ...
The Boston Globe

Angiulo brothers, Whitey Bulger’s family, other mobsters appear in newly released 1950 census records

Attention armchair historians: the 1950 census data is now available for your perusal, and if you don’t feel like looking up your own family’s history, you can dig up details about several prominent ...
PBS

Genealogists Celebrate Release of 1950 Census Records

Records from the 1950 census have been released, giving researchers new information. Last week, the U.S. National Archives released U.S. census records from 1950, granting public access to files that ...
The Daily Advertiser

Newly released 1950 census shows names, ages, addresses and jobs of Louisiana’s residents

Newly released records of the 1950 census now offer a glimpse into Louisiana and the nation's past , as the names, ages, addresses and occupations of respondents were released last week. Census ...
USA Today

Detailed 1950 US Census data to be released April 1 following mandatory 72-year wait

Historians and genealogists rejoice. On Friday, the 1950 U.S. Census individual-level data will be released to the public. Sequestered by law for 72 years, the personally identifiable and detailed ...
The Washington Post

The 1950 census, a treasure trove of data, was the last of its kind

On Friday, the U.S. National Archives will unlock the complete records of the 1950 Census. These files describe more than 150 million people, one by one. They bear the handwriting of a small army of ...