Research Write Connect Blog

March is National Women's History Month and to celebrate, we are excited to announce a discount on the Finding Your Female Ancestors course available at Research, Write, Connect!

This course is packed full of information from my 30+ years of researching female ancestors! 

Limited Time: Save 30%

Register today and take 30% off the regular price of $99 (now just $69.30 USD)

Use coupon code: FEARLESS2022

Offer expires 31 March 2022 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time!

Here's What You'll Learn

By taking this course today, you will quickly overcome the common challenges of missing maiden names and male-dominated record sets to finally find the females in your family tree. Get strategies and methods to help you tell "her" story!

Course Highlights

• Work on your own schedule.
• Tips and Techniques: Detailed lessons and instructional videos will show you successful strategies for finding your female ancestors.
• Measure Your Progress:...

[This article is by Diana Crisman Smith for Research Write Connect]

Have you heard the exciting news? The 1950 U.S. Federal Census will be released on 1 April 2022!

I’ve been waiting for this one to see what all the family that I know were up to at that time (I hadn’t yet made my initial appearance). It is understood that, as with the 1940 census, it is planned to be released UNINDEXED, then crowdsourcing will index it. It was expected that would take a year - but you know how impatient genealogists are: we got together on several platforms and went to work - it was done in 6 months. I expect 1950 will be a similar effort.

Blank 1950 Census Form

In the meantime, however, there will be records out there that we want to see NOW. This will be possible, but that means you need to know where to look. There are some aids in development which will help. But we need to do some homework first.

1. Figure out who was living in 1950 and start trying to put...