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I think the volunteers should be primarily selected from the areas they live in and are familiar with.
When transcriptionists work in towns they don't know historically, they often don't recognize last names and mis-transcribe them. This has been my personal experience over 35+ years in genealogy.
Fortunately however, the 1950 census may be somewhat less susceptible to this since it's not colonial era handwriting!
It's fascinating. I'm working on New York City and I love reading the registers. It's mostly all apartment buildings and it's interesting to see how many people had extended family and friends living with them in small apartments.
Also, many people had "boarders" living with them. So renting out a room to a stranger isn't a new Airbnb phenomenon. Of course, post-war New York had a terrible shortage of housing so "taking in a boarder" wasn't that unusual.
My wife has been doing the family search one for a couple years.
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