1901 Census Available online now

Dummy

It's now available.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

gurramok

Its very slowwww. Also you cannot search 1901 only browse as far as i can see.

Kalimah

I've had no trouble with it at all. I searched for and found my grandfather and great great grandfather.

Millie

Was in there earlier today and no problems either and found my gang no problem.

owenc

Kalimah wrote: »

I've had no trouble with it at all. I searched for and found my grandfather and great great grandfather.

Yea i found my great great grandfather but my great great great grandfather was dead and lived to 90!!

gurramok

Yeh, fast now. Was not like that earlier.

Morlar

Just been checking out side of my family there. Excellent site. Here is the 1901 census return for Pádraig Pearse

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Pembroke_East___Donnybrook/Sandymount_Avenue__Part_of_/1285811/

oncevotedff

Mine is incredibly slow and I am unable to open the household return form.

Still found a few more details of my family tree and may have tracked my great great grandfather down in Co. Offaly. Yay. Except now I have a BIFFO in the family.:(

MarchDub

It's all working fine for me. Fast, no problem. Found my relatives, so no surprises really.

I see a note on a page on the site that explains the demise of previous census archives, I knew about those lost in the civil war but was surprised to read:
"The original census returns for 1861 and 1871 were destroyed shortly after the censuses were taken. Those for 1881 and 1891 were pulped during the First World War, probably because of the paper shortage".

Pulped? Because of possible paper shortage? Anyone know anything more about this? Here's the link.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/help/history.html

owenc

Morlar wrote: »

Just been checking out side of my family there. Excellent site. Here is the 1901 census return for Pádraig Pearse

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Pembroke_East___Donnybrook/Sandymount_Avenue__Part_of_/1285811/

They have the historic ones aswell omg must go and look.

oncevotedff

MarchDub wrote: »

Pulped? Because of possible paper shortage? Anyone know anything more about this? Here's the link.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/help/history.html

Sounds like bóllocks to me. They didn't pulp the English ones.

The site has had 24 million hits since last week.

Baron de Robeck

I'm finding a lot of interesting information but the same problem that I have with the 1911 Census is also cropping up, that of names being incorrectly read and therefore wrongly transcribed. In defence of whoever misread them I have to admit the handwriting is not always easy to read and of course anybody unfamiliar with Irish surnames would be at a disadvantage but researchers need to bear in mind that negative results could be because of this. Overall it is a very welcome development to see it on line and i'm getting a lot of mileage from it.

Judgement Day

Baron de Robeck wrote: »

I'm finding a lot of interesting information but the same problem that I have with the 1911 Census is also cropping up, that of names being incorrectly read and therefore wrongly transcribed. In defence of whoever misread them I have to admit the handwriting is not always easy to read and of course anybody unfamiliar with Irish surnames would be at a disadvantage but researchers need to bear in mind that negative results could be because of this. Overall it is a very welcome development to see it on line and i'm getting a lot of mileage from it.

I found quite a number of transcribing errors in my own family and corrected them online and they have since been updated.