The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni) has announced that it has updated its FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) license to include access to the 1921 census for England and Wales. Access is available via terminals in the archive's Search Room in Belfast.
There was no 1921 census in Ireland due to the Anglo-Irish War, but that does not mean that some of your ancestors won't turn up elsewhere in the UK! A good example can be shown from my own family, where my great great grandfather Edwin Graham, his third wife Sarah, four of his children, and two step-children that I was previously unaware of, all popped up at Bootle, near Liverpool in England:
Don't forget also that the Scottish 1921 census is also available online at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.
The glass is half-full with Irish research, not half-empty!
(Thanks to Stephen Scarth and Martin Greer)
Chris
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High time NLS upgraded as well.
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