Preparation for the release of the 1950 US Federal Census - Google Maps Trick

Are you ready for the release of the 1950 US Federal Census ? Watch for this graphic, on this Blog, and DearMYRTLE's Blog and Facebook Groups as we will use this for the DearMYRTLE's CensusGenie branding.

In this blog post and Video, I will share a trick I found while trying to use the 

"Cross or back street on same city block" feature, on the Steve Morse Unified 1950 Census ED Finder website, and you don't see a cross or back street on the Map.

References: 

1 - Preparation for the 1940 US Federal Census on this blog already, can be found in the "Census1940" Label. The 1950 CensusGenie series will use the "Census1950" Label on the Left Column of this blog, or search for "1940census" or "1950census".

2 - DearMYRTLE's CensusGenie Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rdO6qrz4tHtCyoioEfyIuTdwfOF8V3ph- 

Myrt as a Tab on her Website for easy access to this project.

https://blog.dearmyrtle.com/p/censusgenie.html

The usual schedule will be:

Weekly - 7 Apr 2021 14 Apr 2021 21 Apr 2021 

Monthly - May 2021 -Feb 2022 Weekly - Mar 2022 

Daily - Apr 2022 until we get the hang of the indexing. 

3 - Register once for this recurring Zoom Meeting. 

Dates for upcoming will appear below. For the most recent dates, be sure to see DearMYRTLE's Calendar located here:

https://blog.dearmyrtle.com/p/geneawebinars-calendar.html

5 Jan 2022

2 Feb 2022

2 Mar 2022

9 Mar 2022

16 Mar 2022

23 Mar 2022

30 Mar 2022

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How to Display Data ?

I have been thinking about the ways we can display our data, usually for ourselves. For example, the 1940 Census.

My family lived in a town, with about 36 of them living in this same town. FTM2012 is great for generating reports one where folks lived, and with the new hierarchical format we are able to gather and see them together.

For example, this is a Report for the 1940 Census Records that I have in my database. I have blogged about this before, on how to create this report.

 With the new update, to FTM2012, we now can see these addresses in a new format. I should mention, that IF the 1940 Census had the street address, I added an Address entry but make the Address Facts private.

I have moved all of my Addresses into the new format and here is a screen capture of what that looks like.

 I haven't displayed the full address, but you can get the idea (that column can be widened to see the full address.

BUT, that isn't a good visual presentation on how close or how far those places are, in relationship to one another.

I took the data and created a Google Map for presentation of the same information. Zooming in on the map, and moving around a little, you can see houses, zooming in and out you can see how close the "family" lived in 1940. There is information with each of those houses.

View 1940 US Census Households in a larger map


This is great on displaying the information that I do have, but how to I identify that data that I don't have. Hmmmm
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