1950

 Tomorrow is a big day for all interested in genealogy.  The 1950 census will be released and several of us will be listed.   According to the "72-Year Rule," the National Archives releases census records to the general public 72 years after Census Day. As a result, the 1930 census records were released April 1, 2002, and the 1940 records were released April 2, 2012. The 1950 census records will be released in April 2022.   72 years was considered an average lifespan, but in 2020 the average in the United States was over 78 years.  Our country has been conducting censuses every 10 years since 1790.  All this data still exits.  The 1890 census was destroyed by fire and that record is gone.  The 1950 census collected the following information from all respondents:  address, whether house is on a farm, name, relationship to head of household, race, sex, age, marital status, birthplace, if foreign born, whether naturalized, employment status, hours worked in week, occupation, industry and class of worker.

My family is living in the area I painted red.  I think I my kicking in my Mother and not yet born.