The data, which includes names, addresses and ages, had been kept secret for 72 years to protect privacy
And there, listed as head of the household, was his father, Anthony P. Ferriero, then 40, an auto mechanic who the Census said had worked 64 hours the previous week at a local garage.
On Saturday, April 1, 1950, an army of 140,000 census enumerators had started out across the country to interview the roughly 151 million residents in 46 million households. “I really wanted to find this because it’s the only census where my entire family, the whole grouping, is together,” he said. “My mother, my father, my sister, myself and my grandmother.”Now 81, he was 9 when the enumerator visited in 1950.The 1950 Census was the nation’s 17th. It has been conducted every 10 years since 1790, by order of the Constitution.
“What many people don’t know is that the census is particularly important to Indian tribes,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, member of the Pueblo of Laguna tribe, said in one of the prerecorded announcements that helped launch the release.
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