1950 Census Returns for Families in Texas
I had not yet had time to search at the National Archives 1950 census website for my ancestors and decided to locate the families who lived in Erath County, Texas. When I heard that Ancestry had completed their indexing project, similar to NARA’s, using optical character recognition of the handwriting, I decided to make a comparison. I searched first for my grandmother's father, George W. Lancaster, in Stephenville, Erath County, Texas at Ancestry . The first entry came right up with the correct spelling and correct wife, Lela A. [1] Searching at the NARA 1950 census website, the first return was also George Lancaster with the next person being Lela a. [2] Stephenville, Erath Co, Texas; 888 W. McNeill Next, I searched for my grandmother's father-in-law, Thomas N. Johnston, first at Ancestry and he came right up at the first entry. [3] At the NARA site, he came up as the second entry. The handwriting on these sheets is very legible, so that is likely a reason the OCR work