Claire Bradley

Barely a wet week has passed since the 1926 census has launched and Ancestry has already got a trancribed version on their site. Presumably this will be the same transcription as on the

The Story of Us is a companion book released on Monday to tie in with the launch of the 1926 census. It’s edited by Orlaith McBride (Director of the National Archives) and

I don’t want to be negative about this amazing new free resource, but inevitably when a large dataset is transferred from handwritting to transcriptions and digital images, errors creep in. The newly released data was created with machine reading, OCR technology and human input. You can read more about the process in new book

100 years to the day at 00:01 on 18th April 2026, the National Archives has gifted genealogists and historians with the long-awaited public release of the Irish Free State’s 1926 census. The link to search is here. It’s free to access and you ...

It is here at last. I’ve been wanting to see this census since 1999.

The link to search on is this one. The old census site remains active but does ...