SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
October 15, 2022
“The 1950 Census Has Arrived: What to Know!”
Presented by: Joel Weintraub
The U.S. 1950 census became public on the National Archives dedicated 1950 Census website on April 1, 2022. Joel Weintraub will discuss how to use the Archives site (including their preliminary name index) and problems you may encounter. After the rollout a crowdsourcing project to name index this important resource began by FamilySearch in conjunction with Ancestry.com. Name indexes are great when they work, however, you should know that if you have a 1950 address/location of your targets, you should also be able to see their population schedules using 1950 district maps at the National Archives, and locational tools (district definitions and urban area street indexes) that Joel, his volunteers, and Steve Morse have put online at stevemorse.org, the US Census section, and the Unified Tool. Joel will demonstrate how those tools work. He will also provide some basic resources you should have to interpret the new information, as well as covering basic vocabulary, who uses the census, census caveats, who was enumerated (and who was not), how the 1950 census was taken, training of enumerators, enumerator instruction manuals, census sampling, 1950 population and housing forms and large city block summaries.
About the speaker: Joel Weintraub, a New Yorker by birth, is an emeritus Biology Professor at California State University, Fullerton. He became interested in genealogy over 20 years ago and volunteered for 9 years at the National Archives in southern California. Joel helped produce location tools for 1900 through 1950 federal censuses, and the NY State censuses for NYC (1905, 1915, 1925) for the Steve Morse “One-Step” website. He has published articles since retiring on: the U.S. census and the 72-year rule, the name change belief and finding difficult passenger records at Ellis Island, searching NYC census records with the problems of NYC geography, and a revision of the biography of naturalist Adolphus Heermann. Joel has a YouTube channel with his genealogy and field biology talks at “JDW Talks”. His interests include birding and collecting interesting exhibits for his PowerPoint talks. He is the 2022 co-winner of the Shirley M. Barnes Records Access Award.
This month we will be offering our speaker’s presentation by webinar!
Meeting Place: Online
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
