3 Questions
I am hoping someone can answer each the following three questions:
1. I am surprised by the number of entries that say that no one was home. How many attempts did the census takers make to find someone home before giving up?
2. Did the census takers enter the results directly into the form we see today or were the results entered elsewhere into a different form and then transferred into this form?
3. How do we search the entire 1950 US Census for someone in FamilySearch? I know how to search it in Ancestry, but am not seeing that in FamilySearch.
Thank you,
Jim Heddell
Answers
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@HeddellJim Thank you for your very interesting questions. Here is a link to an article that can help you locate the instructions that were provided for Enumerators.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/United_States_Census_1950
The answer for your third question is that the 1950 census is not yet searchable on FamilySearch. Ancestry.com has chosen to release the computer-indexed record. FamilySearch will be releasing the version that is currently being reviewed/verified by humans.
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