Saturday 22 May 2021

Delay to the 1921 Scottish census release?

Last night I received the latest newsletter from the Manchester based Anglo-Scottish Family History Society (https://mlfhs.uk/anglo-scots/newsletter), which mentioned as one of its items that it looks like there is going to be a delay in the release of the Scottish 1921 census, which was due to be released at some stage after June of this year. 

From the Q&A discussion at the Scottish Indexes conference today it would seem that the Scottish Association of Family History Societies has been similarly informed in the last week of this development, and that it may not be until 2022 before we now see the records being released, as a consequence of the pandemic. 

However, nothing has been publicly announced by the National Records of Scotland on this, which is still advising on its website that "The 1921 census will be released in 2021 after its 100 year closure period has ended" (www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/census-records). 

If we have to wait a wee while longer, though, it will be entirely understandable - let's face it, whenever we see it, it will still be a damn site sooner than the Irish equivalent (because there isn't one!).

All good things come to he or she who waits!

Chris

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1 comment:

  1. Will be really exciting to have these records released. I've reached that stale period in my genealogy where I've ran out of records for my direct ancestors. This will breathe new life into it.

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