Friday: Census Bureau Director to Participate in Virtual 1950 Census Records Event MARCH 31, 2022 – Tomorrow, Friday, April 1, U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos will join the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for a virtual event celebrating the release of population records from the 1950 Census. The event will be hosted on NARA's website and begin at 10 a.m. Join the event by visiting NARA's 1950 Census records webpage at archives.gov/1950census. New Census Academy Course A Stroke of Genealogy: Searching Census Bureau Records Whether you are conducting genealogy research or just interested in finding census records about family members, working with historical records from the Census Bureau is a multi-step process. This new course from Census Academy will walk you through the steps and introduce you to important resources for accessing and using these records, including the 1950 Census records. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is set to release individual records of everyone counted in the 1950 Census April 1, following a mandatory 72-year waiting period. The 1950 Census opens a window into one of the most transformative periods in modern American history, revealing a country of roughly 151 million people who had just recently emerged from the hardships and uncertainties of World War II and the Great Depression. |
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