Tag: Census Records and researchMaking the census happenWednesday 17 March 2021Over the years, the census and its systems have changed and evolved. From the...Behind the scenesExploring our family history resourcesThursday 16 April 2020The documents in our collection can play a vital role in piecing together your...Records and research‘Deaf and dumb’: disabled Victorian civil servantsFriday 8 December 2017The National Archives holds detailed records of people in some areas of public service...Records and researchDo you have a suffrage ancestor?Wednesday 6 December 2017On 6 February 1918, the Representation of the People Act received royal assent, enfranchising approximately...Records and researchEdwardian place and society: the Valuation Office surveyThursday 15 December 2016An original contemporary source helps us understand how people from a wide cross-section of...Records and researchMy Tommy’s War: A trooper in YpresFriday 31 October 2014For today’s blog post, I would like to share the wartime experiences of my...Records and researchLost in translation: disability history and the difficulty of languageWednesday 29 January 2014Last month was Disability History Month. Founded in 2010, it endeavours to highlight the...Records and researchThe same age as my tongue, and a bit older than my teethWednesday 31 July 2013This is an unfailingly accurate, if not exactly helpful, answer to the question ‘How...Records and researchNew, improved census cataloguingMonday 8 July 2013You might think that because all the censuses for England and Wales (and the...Records and researchCensuses comparedMonday 8 April 2013Just over a year ago the 1940 census of the United States was released,...Records and researchIt’s not the document, it’s the informationWednesday 23 January 2013Researchers spend a lot of time looking for documents. In fact, they may spend...Records and researchMissing from the census?Monday 19 November 2012All family historians use the census, and most of us find most of what... « 1 2 3 »