Exclusive Features

Exclusive Features

No matter how much you uncover in the 1950 U.S. Census, it’s only one part of a much bigger story. We can help you put all the pieces of that story together, with features that help you find connections and deliver discoveries in ways you won’t find anywhere else.

No matter how much you uncover in the 1950 U.S. Census, it’s only one part of a much bigger story. We can help you put all the pieces of that story together, with features that help you find connections and deliver discoveries in ways you won’t find anywhere else.

1950 Census Page  Exclusive Features

Record Tour*

The 1950 census is a trove of exciting, new information and we can help you navigate it. With this feature, you’ll get a personalized guided tour, showing you step-by-step what’s in your family’s record and what it means. You can discover details like your ancestors’ occupations, education level, and even a street view to see what their neighborhoods look like today. It can help you better understand how that information applies to your story and reveal new insights about your relatives and their world in 1950.

Contextual Insights*

Sometimes there’s more to a census record detail than what’s on the surface. What does that abbreviation mean? If your relatives rented their home, how common was that in their area? Was their level of education similar to others during that time? Contexual insights in the census record can not only explain the information that’s there, but can give you a comparison between your relatives and other people of the era to add additional context and depth to your story.

1950 Census District Finder

Where your relatives lived is an important part of their story and the 1950 census can help you learn more about what it was like back then. This feature combines census enumeration map overlays with a modern-day interactive map, letting you explore their world in an entirely new way. Compare landmarks, roads, new developments, and other marked features on the maps to see how much has changed over the years, and how much is still the same.

Coming soon!
Cross-Record Insights

The census can provide a revealing snapshot of your relatives’ lives, but there’s often more to the story. Your great-grandfather may have been a factory worker in one census, only to become a factory owner the next. This feature can compare results from multiple records, and even add additional historical context to help you discover what remained the same and what changed for your ancestors from one decade to another.

*This feature will become available as the census records are indexed.

Record Tour*

The 1950 census is a trove of exciting, new information and we can help you navigate it. With this feature, you’ll get a personalized guided tour, showing you step-by-step what’s in your family’s record and what it means. You can discover details like your ancestors’ occupations, education level, and even a street view to see what their neighborhoods look like today. It can help you better understand how that information applies to your story and reveal new insights about your relatives and their world in 1950.

Contextual Insights*

Sometimes there’s more to a census record detail than what’s on the surface. What does that abbreviation mean? If your relatives rented their home, how common was that in their area? Was their level of education similar to others during that time? Contexual insights in the census record can not only explain the information that’s there, but can give you a comparison between your relatives and other people of the era to add additional context and depth to your story.

Coming soon!

Enumeration District Maps

Where your relatives lived is an important part of their story and the 1950 census can help you learn more about what it was like back then. This feature combines census enumeration map overlays with a modern-day interactive map, letting you explore their world in an entirely new way. Compare landmarks, roads, new developments, and other marked features on the maps to see how much has changed over the years, and how much is still the same.

Coming soon!

Cross-Record Insights

The census can provide a revealing snapshot of your relatives’ lives, but there’s often more to the story. Your great-grandfather may have been a factory worker in one census, only to become a factory owner the next. This feature can compare results from multiple records, and even add additional historical context to help you discover what remained the same and what changed for your ancestors from one decade to another.

*This feature will become available
as the census records are indexed.