The 1950 Census records are now online

After 72 years the data for the 1950 Census of the United States has been made available online:

https://1950census.archives.gov/search/

In addition to searching for my family members I also took a look for Old Time Radio favorites.  The first I found was Jack Benny:

Jack Benny, his family and staff

See line 18.  Jack lived at 1002 N. Roxbury Dr. in Beverly Hills along with his wife, Mary, daughter Joan, two maids, a cook, a butler and a secretary.

Danny Kaye (see line 4) only had 6 in his household including his wife, Sylvia, his daughter along with the nurse, butler and cook.

The searching is still a little rough and sometimes there are mistakes by the Census taker.  For example: searching for Danny Kaye might have missed him because his name is listed as Kay (no final letter e).

For the 1940 census I use Familysearch.org.  I think it may take Familysearch a while to digest the 1950 dataset before they can offer it on their web site.

here are a couple of my pages of 1940 census results for old time radio:

http://wb9kzy.com/1940cens.htm
 

http://wb9kzy.com/vscensus.htm

The next census release will be for 1960 and we'll have to wait until April 1, 2032 for that, I should still be here, it was the first census on which I was enumerated !

I suppose we will have to wait until 2042 (1970 plus 72 years) before searching by zip codes will be possible - zip codes were initiated in the 1960s, again, I should still be around in 2042.

Now to get back to finding the old time radio related census records, Fred Allen (and Portland) where are you ?

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm