1950 US Census - families started on 1 page, finished on next
On 1950 census, my family was started on bottom of one page and I was listed on next page; now I do not appear as part of family. I helped with indexing that census, so it seems someone did not go to next page. How do I correct that so I am included with my family?
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The new "edit everything" tool that's available on the 1950 census index is capable of re-doing family groupings across multiple pages, but the process is, um, not straightforward.
The index is very simplistic: it only allows one relationship per non-principal person. Therefore, when you want to add someone from the next page to a household on the previous page, first go to the person you want to add and make sure he or she has no relationships already. (If there are relationships, delete them, and make sure to find and click the "save" button.)
Then, go to the previous page and click the principal person (the "head"). Find the Relationships section and click its edit (pencil) button. Scroll down to the bottom of that panel and click the line at the bottom, "Is the information on another page?", then scroll down a bit more and click the "Open Split Screen Mode" button that has appeared. Select the next page and zoom in on it to see what relationships need to be added. Then, back on the edit panel, click the "Add Or Remove Fields" button. On the popup, find and click the bubbles for the desired relationships, and click Save. Back on the edit panel, select the correct name from the drop-down for each new relationship, and click Save Changes.
Note that the first step above (deleting any existing relationships) is very important, because there's a bug: if you don't delete the relationship, it'll give you a nice big red button for doing so during the "add" process -- but that button does exactly nothing, which means that all of your subsequent work will also do exactly nothing.
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YES! That worked! Thank you, Julia. Much appreciated.
I notice now, though, that while I appear on page 10 of the ORIGINAL census document for my district, I do not appear below in the "image index" so I cannot click on myself from page 10. I do appear on the image index of page 9 even though I do not appear on page 9 of the original census document. That may be a bit confusing for future generations, but still better than not being included as part of the family household.
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