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Tag Archives: census
Transcripts and indexes
The release of the 1921 census returns for England and Wales earlier this year led to some (fairly heated) discussion on social media regarding the quality of the transcription provided by Findmypast, the National Archives’ commercial partners in the online … Continue reading
Posted in digitisation, Document Sources, research, Soapbox
Tagged antiquarians, census, digitisation, documents, family history, genealogy, indexing, research, the national archives, tna, transcription
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Please Release Me…
…being a very brief history of the releases of the English & Welsh census returns. We need to understand right from the start that the primary purpose of the census has never been to produce a resource for the benefit … Continue reading
Posted in Local History, research, Soapbox
Tagged 1921 Census, census, documents, family history, genealogy, latter day saints, research, society of genealogists, the national archives, tna
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Don’t Believe The Hints
We’ve all been there. We’re following a line back, we’ve got our ancestor in the census, and we’ve found her marriage. We know the four key pieces of information that we ideally need to formulate a search for her birth; … Continue reading
Posted in research
Tagged census, documents, family history, genealogy, registration, research, tna
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False dawns and first cousins
This is the second of a three-part blog, telling the story of how I broke down a 30-year old brick wall in my research. Read Part One here… The information that my grandma passed on to me had allowed me … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged census, documents, family history, old photos, registration, research
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