Minister for Culture Mary Hanafin says the 1901 Census is an important tool for people that wanted trace their Irish roots. “In a world which is very troubled, people want to know where they are ...

That was the message being delivered to a gathering of Irish and Irish American business people and community leaders at the official U.S. launch of the website containing the full 1901 Census of ...

Conducted by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the Census gathers key data about who lives in England and Wales – everything from age to relationship status. This information is then passed on ...

Lisa Bird-Wilson’s first novel, Probably Ruby, will be published later this month. In 1955, the records of the 1901 census, which I search for evidence of my birth family, were microfilmed. After ...

A window into life in 1901 was opened today with census records going live online, including family detail of some of the greatest Irishmen and women. The National Archives have put 4.5 million ...

LONDON - Budding genealogists received an unexpected boon with the online publication of the census for England and Wales for the year 1901. The Public Record Office is making the entire 1901 census ...

THE failure of a plan to use prisoners to computerise millions of records, preceded the chaotic launch of the online version of the 1901 census, a report revealed yesterday. THE failure of a plan to ...