From Bruce Springsteen & Diana Ross to Joe Biden & Donald Trump, April 1 release of 1950 census forms will in – cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Do you want to know more about your parents or grandparents? Or perhaps a few new tidbits about the well-known born during the 1940s like Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden?

Beginning in April, you will be able to delve into a slice of United States history and learn more about how much the country has changed - or not changed - since the war years and the onset of the baby boom.

On April 1, the U.S. Census Bureau will release the 1950 census records from the National Archives and Records Administration.

This is the raw stuff with names, addresses, family ties, and more attached, not the normal trove of numbers the Census Bureau rolls out. Seventy-two years after each census, this information becomes public. The latest batch, for the first time, will include people born between Census Day in April 1940 and Census Day in 1950.

For Cleveland, the largest swath of the citys history will finally be available, painting a picture of the town at its population peak, 914,808 citizens, making it the nations seventh-largest city at the time.

We compiled a list of famous people born in the 1940s appearing in the census for the first time, including four presidents, Ohioans such as actor Ed ONeil and author R.L. Stein, and a litany of musicians, actors, athletes, and public figures.

Note: Some mobile users may need to use this link instead to view the least of famous people born during the 1940s.

Records will be made available on a new NARA website. Stay tuned for more details. But officials promise a name search function powered by an artificial intelligence/machine learning and optical character recognition technology tool, which helps translate handwritten names into the system. Bulk download capabilities of the records are also planned to be available once the site launches.

The 1950 census also marks the first time Americans abroad were enumerated, including members of the military and government employees living in another country. Additionally, the first non-military computer helped tabulate some of the statistics for the 1954 economic census.

Past census information is kept from the public for a 72-year waiting period meant to protect peoples privacy, back then considered the approximate lifetime of a person. NARA began releasing census data in this manner in 1942.

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From Bruce Springsteen & Diana Ross to Joe Biden & Donald Trump, April 1 release of 1950 census forms will in - cleveland.com