⭐️Project Update!⭐️ April 1 2022 - The 1950 US Census Community Project is nearing launch
Thanks everyone for your patience today as we've been working through all of the details for when we could launch the volunteer project. We've been working closely with Ancestry since 10pm last night, Mountain Time, and are preparing the first handful of states for Name Review—Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Florida, and Arizona. They are coming soon!
We will provide an update tomorrow morning with additional details. We appreciate your ongoing patience and enthusiasm - we want to get it started as soon as possible too! (Family Review, the main part of census review, will follow later next week.)
Here are the most important links for your reference:
- Main 1950 page - https://www.familysearch.org/1950census/
- Project FAQ - https://www.familysearch.org/en/info/1950-us-census-project-frequently-asked-questions (Includes information about creating groups, if you are a group leader
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I passed around fliers and posted on social media to encourage my ward to get on and help with the 1950 census today. I have been searching for an hour trying to find how to get involved. All the instructions I have found keep taking me back to the same page with information about the census but not how to start helping. I saw a post where someone was able to see an ancestor. What am I doing wrong. How do I get to it? I have tried the Get Involved tab and have tried web indexing and Googling "how to help with 1950 census" but I keep seeing the information over and over that tells about the census but not how to start helping!!! Please help!!! I worked on the 1940 census and am excited to do this one.
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Thanks, LKBART for your enthusiasm and support! The link to visit is
https://www.familysearch.org/1950census/
That page will show you when the project is ready for name review. That will take a day or two before it is ready. It already has the link for exploring images.
This time around a computer has indexed the census and we are asking your help to review and correct the entire census.
---Robert Raymond, FamilySearch
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@Robert Raymond - I'm old and don't always phrase things in just the right way but We need to tell people right up front here and on FS My Indexing page that a person wanting to help Reviewing the1950 Census needs to join the private group and give them the link to do so -- this way they don't have to search. I found it buried in https://www.familysearch.org/1950census/ where you are directed to Facebook. Also you need a link or something on the My Indexing Page so that folks on FS indexing can go right to Reviewing the 1950 Census Choices
Thanks, Mary - just a volunteer who has indexed and reviewed on FS over 10 years
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Hello! A great and easy way to participate in the 1950 Census project is to download the Get Involved app (iOS and Android), or to visit https://www.familysearch.org/getinvolved/my-opportunities The images will be available soon, but you can start testing out the tools to learn how to use them right away.
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Mary Ellen,
I'm sorry if we led you to believe you had to join a group. You do not need to. I'm sorry if we led you to believe you had to do something on Facebook. You do not need to.
I'm glad you found https://www.familysearch.org/1950census/. On that page people can sign up for email notification. We will send an email when the project is ready for reviewing. Or check that same page regularly to see if the review project has begun.
To make it easier to find the project, we have replaced "Indexing" on the menu with "Get Involved." Selecting "Get Involved" will lead you to the project once it starts.
It is soooo awesome to learn you are one of our dedicated indexers. I cannot say "thank you" enough. There are, literally, billions of records indexed by you and our other wonderful indexers! I hope you feel the appreciation we all have for you.
---Robert, FamilySearch
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@Robert Raymond I have done all those things and already know about Get Involved - I look every day for an announcement and I check on Review Names too just to double-check --- everything coming out of California btw is in Spanish but I don't speak or read it very well -- Thank you for your appreciation - I compliment you and all the FS employees do for this work -- Mary😎
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Many (most?) 1950 census pages seem to be available to view AND attach to a PID now.
I just attached my entry in 1950 to my father & mother & sister. (Not to me as I appear to be still living 😊😊)
It appears that verify is not up yet.
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Herman Hollerith must have turned over in his grave when it was said in the video that the 1950 census was the first one to be processed by a computer.
You might make it known at the outset of your instructions that any expectations left over from having indexed the 1940 census MUST be forgotten.
My initial efforts at correcting AI transcriptions tell me that your expectations of the quality of the algorithm is several magnitudes off base.
Whoever convinced your project team to build your process around OCR should be forced to do this mess night a day until its done!
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Many (most?) 1950 census pages seem to be available to view AND attach to a PID now.
Yes! I thought about attaching images now, but decided to wait for indexing. I think it is cleaner that way.
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"Cleaner" is an an 'interesting' term. As opposed to ??
I did it simply to allow my family to see the record within the context of the 'family' (and to have the 'privilege' of being one of the 'first' to do have the 1950 Census attached to a PID - not that anyone would ever know - but in 50 years I can tell them) 😊😊😊
Indexing appears to moving relatively slow.
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Cleaner as in:
- More curated detail
- Fewer transcription errors
- I won't need to use my Source Box
- I won't be creating in effect duplicate sources
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The map is a little misleading right now. It shows 3 states begun, white (0%) except for a flash of colors I was able to catch:
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Latest progress map, not sure it is accurate either.
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The map percentages keep changing. NV was at 99% last night and now it's at 0%. Very confusing.
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We're watching that hot new improv genealogy game show, "Whose Line is it Anyway?", where it's all made up and points don't matter.
Wouldn't that make a great T-shirt? FamilySearch Family Tree: Whose Line is it Anyway?
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Yes, it's been a little buggy over the last few days but we think it's starting to settle down now. When Family Review is launched things will change again. :)
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