A compelling up to the minute guide (including details on the 1911 census) to using the census in your family history research.
Written by a bestselling genealogy author and a National Archives expert, Census shows how to interpret intricate details of your ancestors’ lives. It explores how and why information was gathered on names, addresses, family relationships and occupations, revealing why ‘mysteries’ occur and what may be hidden between the lines. It traces the unique features of the 1911 census, to be released from 2009 onwards – the first to feature our ancestor’s handwriting, investigate ‘fertility in marriage’ and be disrupted by Suffragettes – as well as the personalities and procedures that brought the early censuses to life.
Census also considers online access to the returns in detail, from free data and search techniques to the problem of transcription errors. A tour of key census websites – including advance information on the 1911 digitization – reveals the most useful websites and best quality images, as well as the experts’ techniques for approaching original records, microfilm, CDs and DVDs.
Complete with contemporary photographs, screenshots and intriguing case studies, Census is an invaluable guide to this unique historical resource.
Contents:
Introduction
The Victorian censuses 1841-1901
The 1911 census
Why can’t I find my ancestor?
The census online
Online search techniques
Free census indexes online
Ancestry
Findmypast
TheGenealogist and RootsUK
Genes Reunited and 1901censusonline
Origins
ScotlandsPeople
The 1911 census online
The websites compared
Ireland
The censuses on CD-ROM
Using the census on microfilm
Reading and websites
Index
