According to Preparing for the 1950 Census The (US) National Archives will release those records in April 2022. They got to work on it immediately following the release of the 1940 census. To date
.. selected staff who have received special clearances to work on these records have scanned the majority of the pages and are also able to work remotely on indexing efforts. Our staff are busy ensuring that state, county, city and enumeration district metadata will be available at the time of launch.
Toward the end of the post read:
We know that the Census data is important to so many of you. Supporting public access to these records is right at the heart of our mission–to make access happen.
Does LAC management agree public access to records is right at the heart of their mission? Do they know the importance of census data, and not only for genealogists?
In Canada, the 1931 census was taken on 1 June so should become available 92 years later, on that date in 2023? Like its US counterpart, is LAC working toward the timely release of that census?
1 comment:
I sure hope so! It will be immensely helpful to me to see where both my relatives and my husband's direct ancestors were in 1931. I'm first generation Canadian, so n-one in my direct line appears in a Canadian census until 1961.
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