Tag: Census records

Census records are vital for piecing your ancestors’ lives together, and are particularly useful for building a timeline of someone’s life.  Ordinarily, a person’s census returns, taken every 10 years or so, helps to build a picture of where they lived, who they lived with, how they made a living, when their children were born, …

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If your Irish ancestors were in Ireland in the early 20th century, the 1901 and 1911 Census returns are a great place to start your genealogical research. While a census was taken in Ireland every 10 years from 1821 to 1911, the only complete census records which are publicly available are those from 1901 and …

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