Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your 1950 U.S Census Finds

It's Saturday Night -

time for more Genealogy Fun!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:

1) The 1950 United States Census was released by the U.S. National Archives on Friday, 1 April 2022.

2) Did you make a list of your census targets and try to find them in the 1950 census? How did your plans pay off - did you find everyone, or just some of them?

3) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post. Be sure to leave a link with your answers in a comment.

I made my list of targets a few weeks ago. The National Archives 1950 census website opened at 9:00 p.m MT on March 31st. The first search I made was for my great-grandmother, Clara Armstead. I found her immediately - she was the first result that came up! Her then-husband, Anthony, was on the previous page as she and her sons were on the same page.

So far, I found the following (I will update as I find more):

*Half-Aunt

* 2 uncles

* 3 Grandparents: Ollie, Thomas

* 8 Great-grandparents: George, Gursie, Anthony, Clara, Joe, Anna, Earnest & Lela

*1 2nd Great-Grandparent: Tracy

When the name index comes out, I will have to find my other two grandparents and great-grandparents. I don't know if my grandfather, Fletcher Pearson, lived in Michigan or Ohio at the time of the census.

*Update: I have found my other grandmother with her parents and siblings!

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