The Tennessee Genealogy Indexing Project’s historical newspapers activity has already hit a milestone of 5,000 names of individuals, businesses, and organizations in under a month of work.
Have you joined the adventure?
Also, we hope you will follow the activities on Facebook.
The 1950 U. S. Census is scheduled for public release on April 1, 2022.
Until an every-name index is available (underway at FamilySearch.org), researchers will have to browse census returns by Enumeration District.
To prepare for your success, we suggest the following resources.
1950 Census Articles posted at the History Hub Blog (National Archives) — click here to browse the list
Enumerator’s Reference Manual — click here to read or download free from Google Books
Tennessee County Enumeration District Maps — click here to select from the list provided by TGS
These maps were drawn on 1939 State Highway Department maps, which are themselves worthwhile to researchers.
Tennessee Genealogical Society’s 1950 Census Resources — click here to view the options
Of particular interest, see the link to Enumerator Training Films uploaded to YouTube.
This is a cooperative effort between the Tennessee State Library & Archives and the TNGenWeb Project. Our aim is to index every available newspaper in the TSLA collection and make the images and index available free on-line in perpetuity.
We are indexing, not transcribing or abstracting. Effective researchers need good pointers to resources, which they can then study and evaluate. They don’t need someone(s) else’s derivative idea of what is important to their historical explorations.
Would you like to participate? You can work from just about any device, in your own time. Speed is not important — accuracy is! You need a free user account for login, which requires an e-mail address.
Periodically, we will hold on-line orientation sessions by Zoom. The initial orientation sessions are below, along with a link to registration. If you don’t have time to pre-register, send an e-mail via the “Contact” button on this page so we can give you the Zoom link.
We also have a Facebook group that interested volunteers can sign up for.
We hope to see you there! Please also feel free to share this with anyone who may be interested, including e-mail lists, Facebook groups, etc.
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