Crowdsourcing the Path to the 1950 U.S. Census
The Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego meets on the third Saturday of each month (except December).
9 am: User groups: Ancestry.com with Del Ritchhart and DNA with Corlee Morris. 10:20 am: Dr. Joel Weintraub, "Crowdsourcing The Path To The 1950 U.S. Census."
The 1940 U.S. Census opened in 2012 without a name index. A FamilySearch led consortium used 160,000 volunteers to name index that census in four months. In addition, Joel and Steve Morse -- over seven years, with about 125 volunteers -- developed free utilities to find which of 150,000 census districts someone was in when a location or address is known. These projects are examples of crowdsourcing.
Steve and Joel are now doing a similar project for the 1950 Census. Joel will discuss differences between the 1940 and 1950 censuses that impacted their planning and project design.