Citation · C0895 · record
1950 United States Federal Census
National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Roll: 1537; Page: 23; Enumeration District: 103-1548
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Validator (claude-sonnet-5-5, 2026-10-28): consistent, confidence 3/4, tier record.
The image shows the 1950 census sheet for Chicago, ED 103-1548, with "Tauber, Alois J." as head of household at line 24, aged 37. This matches the name Alois Joseph Tauber on first name, surname and middle initial, and the age fits a birth around 1912. The full middle name Joseph is not spelled out, so the record is consistent with the claim rather than fully stating it.
Matches: Line 24 shows "Tauber, Alois J.", Head, W, M, age 37, married, born Illinois, which fits Alois Joseph Tauber with a birth around 1912 to 1913; Surname Tauber and first name Alois match the claim, and the middle initial J. is consistent with Joseph; Household: wife Irene E. (35) and son Ronald A. (12), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, matching the citation's census place and ED 103-1548; Sample-line parents' birthplaces (Czechoslovakia and Austria) fit a Czech/Austrian-descended family
Limits: The census gives only the initial J., not the full middle name Joseph; Age 37 in April 1950 implies a birth in 1912 or 1913, which supports the 1912 birth year only approximately; The census says nothing about his death in 1982; The sample-line parent data is hard to align with the Tauber line, so it is not used as a match point; The handwriting is small, and the image does not independently show this is the same Alois Joseph Tauber as in the database
What it supports
- Person — Alois Joseph Tauber