The first-ever publication of 1950 census records promises to solve some family mysteries for amateur genealogists and family historians
Records identifying people by name can’t be made public until 72 years after they are gathered during the once-a-decade U.S. head countElaine Powell set her alarm and jumped on her computer just after midnight so she could find the first time she appeared in the U.S. population count — information she had to wait more than seven decades to see.
Powell, who was born in 1946, found her name recorded at a St. Louis address early Friday, shortly after the federal archives released digitized individual records of 151 million people from the 1950 census. But that was just the beginning. She's now hoping the records will help her track down information about a great-grandmother she never knew.
“When you’re a family historian or genealogist, it’s all about the census,” said Powell, president of the Central Florida Genealogical Society. For privacy reasons, records identifying people by name can’t be made public until 72 years after they are gathered during the once-a-decade U.S. head count. The 72-year rule was part of a 1952 agreement between the archivist of the U.S. at the time and the Census Bureau director at the time, but no one seems to know how they settled on that number.Download NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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