Today the National Archives released the 1950 Population Schedule for public viewing on the archives' website . Indexing has been done using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and thus, there are errors in this index right now. Users are encouraged to take advantage of the abilty to add corrected information so that the index will improve over time with use. The index may be searched under name, location, and/or Enumeration District Number. West Brookfield had two enumeration districts in 1950. They are 14-438 which includes the village area, and 14- 439 encompacing the surrounding outlying areas.
The first image of District 14-438 is an adminstrators page showing who the enumerators were (Ralph Barrows led the team,) and the count for the district. There were 1070 individuals living in 454 dwelling units in this district. The following pages named the individuals living in town, their realtionship to others in the household, ages, birthplaces, occupations and earnings, and military status. Ralph Barrows began Sheet No. 1 on April 1, 1950 listing his own household and continuing down Church Street to the home of Clarence Lyman, He covered some of Lake St., Crescent Avenue and Myrick St. I searched Clarence Lyman and I scrolled down to the bottom of the page to get
