ScotlandsPeople to launch 1921 census tomorrow on St Andrew's Day

From ScotlandsPeople (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk):

Get your clicking fingers ready: the 1921 Census is coming to ScotlandsPeople!

 

The 1921 census will be opened at 9 am tomorrow morning, available to search and view. Find your parents, grandparents or even earlier generations among 4.8 million individual records.

 

For the first time, open up 150,000 searchable scanned images of the original handwritten census books detailing each address, from the very finest hotels to the most cramped tenements and from ships at sea to people living in tents.

 

Get a glimpse of what life was like for people in 1921: where they lived, who they lived with, their occupations and more. This census also recorded where people worked, if children had been orphaned and who was eligible for benefit under the National Insurance Act of 1911.

 

Investigate for yourself from tomorrow morning...

 

Please note that the ScotlandsPeople website will be offline from 06:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 30 November, ahead of publication. Thank you for your patience.

COMMENT: It's been a long time coming, but with the many current problems with the site as a result of last week's update, fingers crossed that at least this bit of the site will work.

 

 

Chris

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