Ancestry and FamilySearch Join Together to check Ancestry's automated Index of the 1950 United States Federal Census

 

https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/indexing-1950-census

On April 1, 2022, the 1950 U.S. Census will be released and Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org will join in a project to index the census schedules. Unlike the volunteer focused effort that was used for past census indexes, Ancestry.com will be using sophisticated Artificial Intelligence based handwriting recognition program for the initial indexing. Then FamilySearch.org's volunteers will get busy checking the accuracy of the computer-aided index. Ancestry will be indexing all of the fields of the records.

FamilySearch also indicates that volunteer checkers will be able to work on records related to their family and for their own locations of interest. 

It is anticipated that the indexing will take far less time than it has in the past. I expect that many other companies will obtain copies of the census and begin indexing activities.