Get Started with Census Research focuses on the most important document to use in your family history research, the census.

The population survey carried out every ten years shows where almost everyone in the UK was on a certain night. This makes the censuses that are openly available from the 19th and early 20th centuries crucial for plotting the lives of your kin. Get Started with Census Research is the ultimate guide to showing you how.

In the first section you’ll find everything you need to know about finding the censuses, and using them to discover your ancestors’ location, occupation and family ties every ten years.

Once you’ve found your forebears, you can use the second section to discover how you can take your discoveries further. You can use a host of records to bring your ancestors’ stories to life.

However, not everyone was at home on census night. With this in mind, the Missing From the Census section reveals where your elusive ancestors were and what life was like: be they abroad with the army, or in an asylum, hospital or workhouse.

Finally, if you have Irish or Scottish roots, you’ll find a whole section dedicated to the unique censuses north of the border and across the Irish Sea, and how to break down genealogical brick walls that you may encounter along the way.

Published: December 2011

Pagination: 194 pages

Dimensions: 297 x 210mm