United Kingdom and Ireland

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In general census information is to be found in GENUKI at the level of the separate countries making up the UK and Ireland.

Lumas, Susan. Making Use of the Census, The National Archives (2002) 128 pp. [ISBN 190336535x]
["This is a revised edition of this bestselling guide to census records at The National Archives. Census records are some of the most valuable and frequently used by family historians and the release of a new census every ten years is an eagerly anticipated event. Published to coincide with the opening of 1901 Census in January 2002, this new edition incorporates all the essential details for researchers wishing to exploit this new and important resource. It also offers practical advice to historians to find their way into the nineteenth century returns. It provides help in tracking down individuals as part of a family tree, and is equally helpful to social or economic historians. . ."]

• The 1901 Census of England and Wales is now available online, with a free index search facility. To accompany this new resource, the Public Record Office have produced a fascinating set of pages entitled 1901: Living at the Time of the Census.
• Ancestry provides census record images, with partial or in some cases complete freely-searchable indexes, of England, Wales, Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man for 1841-1901.
• The L.D.S. (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) have now provided free online search facilities of a detailed transcription of the 1881 British Census (England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man only).
• The FreeCEN Project is a volunteer effort to provide a free online searchable database of detailed transcriptions of the 19th century UK census returns, initially concentrating mainly on those for 1891.
• The Victorian Census Project at Staffordshire University aims to computerise a number of source documents and related materials relating to Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. A lot of interesting and useful background information is provided on the page entitled " Census Enumerators' Books".
• A searchable database of places in the 1891 census. This covers England, Wales and the Isle of Man and returns the County, Registration District, Registration Sub-District, PRO Piece Number and LDS Film Number.
• Barry Ruck's Mini FAQ deals primarily with matters involving the census.
• 1901 Census - Royal Navy Ships - Jeffery Knaggs has compiled an index to Royal Navy ships that were at sea or in ports abroad on 31st March 1901.
• 1901 Census - Institutions - Jeffery Knaggs is compiling an index to Institutions on the 1901 Census of England and Wales.
• British Census Indexes, Transcripts, and Images Available Online or on CD - a useful summary from Daniel Morgan.
• Statistics from the 2001 census provided by 'National Statistics' (formerly the Office of National Statistics).
• A Vision of Britain Through Time. Information from the 1801 to 2001 censuses arranged by local-authority area.
• The Online Historical Population Reports project at AHDS History have a project to provide searchable online access all the census reports for Great Britain (1801-1931) and reports of the registrars-general (1836-1920) for England, Wales and Scotland. The current version is a demo version, but release version will be launched on 9th January 2007. Note that this site contains only statistical reports, and does not include information about individuals.
• Limited access to the 1911 census will be possible before the normal relaease date of 2012 - see the the National Archives's page How do I make a request? / FOI questions on the subjet

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