The 1950 census will be released in just over a month, and for those doing genealogical research it will obviously be a treasure trove of data.
The interesting thing is that this will be (with a few exceptions) probably the first time that some of us here will appear in census records. The law says that 72 years have to elapse before the records are made public.
Ten years ago when they released the 1940 census, I spent a lot of time as a volunteer editor, looking at the scanned pages and trying to decipher the often horrible handwriting of the census enumerators. I've read somewhere that they plan to use mainly OCR and AI resources to do that this time, but I'm sure there will be at least some need for human effort as well. Does anyone know of such a project? I would enjoy signing up for it again.
The interesting thing is that this will be (with a few exceptions) probably the first time that some of us here will appear in census records. The law says that 72 years have to elapse before the records are made public.
Ten years ago when they released the 1940 census, I spent a lot of time as a volunteer editor, looking at the scanned pages and trying to decipher the often horrible handwriting of the census enumerators. I've read somewhere that they plan to use mainly OCR and AI resources to do that this time, but I'm sure there will be at least some need for human effort as well. Does anyone know of such a project? I would enjoy signing up for it again.