On Friday, April 1, my genealogy friends and I didn’t get much sleep. Like the rare appearance of a celestial object or the reemergence of an old friend, the U.S. census records from 1950 were made ...

It is now easy to access information on individuals from that census, but beware of misspelled names. By Michael Wines The National Archives and Records Administration posted millions of records from ...

It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some ...

The records for the 1950 U.S. Census were just released Friday morning. The National Archives released them just after midnight on April 1, and an agreement was put in place that census records would ...

Close to 7 million records from the 1950 US census have been made public. The digital records were released on Friday and are available to the public free of charge at a dedicated website, allowing ...

genealogy sleuths, historians and the merely curious can dig through those 1950 census forms, the first to be unveiled in a searchable format. The records are released by the National Archives 72 ...