Hi there,
This month's record: the 1950 census
The 1950 US census was released in 2022, and it's free to search on the National Archives' website. If your grandparents or great-grandparents were alive in 1950, they're probably in it, with their ages, birthplaces, jobs and who lived in the house.
More in US census records.
One free place to search
Chronicling America, from the Library of Congress, has millions of digitized newspaper pages. Try searching a surname with the town name.
Reader question
"My great-grandfather's name is spelled three different ways. Which is right?" Probably all of them. Spelling wasn't standardized and census takers wrote what they heard. Record each version with its source. See Recording names and dates.
Happy searching,
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