Tomorrow is a big day. Beginning tomorrow, if you are interested, you will have a chance to take a stroll back in time to view data, from the long anticipated, 1950 U.S. Census. 151 Million Americans talked to a Census Worker that year, and finally, after 72 years, those of us who were alive, all those years ago, will have a chance to look back our own lives and the lives of our parents and grandparents.
The previous 16 Census(es or i ?) have been really interesting, to those of us interested in history. Through that information, collected verbally by government workers, we have been able to name and locate our ancestors, some as far back as the early 1800's. But this latest one....Wow. Seriously, I can hardly wait.
What am I looking for? Well, 1950 was a time, in America, when we as a nation were on the edge of big change. Dads were just home from World War II. Women were not a factor in the work force, and kids were (for the most part) not glued to TV sets. Folks lived in cities or on farms, because suburbs were just beginning to appear. By 1960, (the next census) the United States had entered the modern era!
Where were you living in 1950? Where was your dad employed? Were you going to school? Who were your neighbors? Did you live with your grandparents? You will be able to discover all of those things....if you take the time to look.
As an aside, the information from the 1950 Census, will be released gradually over the next few months. No one wants the Internet broken, on April Fools Day!
Great God: We are blessed to have so much information available, at our fingertips. W look with awe at Your majesty and creation. Thank You for our many blessings. May we use them wisely and to Your glory.
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Get a good night's sleep---think you'll be busy tomorrow.
Love you, History Lady!
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