1881 Census Online
Census name indexes and transcripts are available online. A census name index is an index of names compiled from the census records, and enable you to search for a person by surname, forename and age. Transcripts are more detailed than indexes, and enable you to search across all the fields, such as occupation and address.
Transcribing the census for large counties like London or Yorkshire is a mammoth task and a huge amount of manpower is required to compile those records.
Smaller UK-based companies, societies and individuals have been compiling census name indexes covering particular counties or areas. Cultural, historical, geographical knowledge of the UK and an interest in genealogy gives them an advantage in producing more accurate results than other companies outside of the UK.
To remedy this situation, two major UK-based genealogy supplies companies, S&N Genealogy Supplies and British Data Archive, have funded a census name-indexing project, and have worked tirelessly to create indexes and full transcripts. These transcripts are now available online. Thousands of volunteers from all over the UK have since contributed to this project. S&N are also funding major transcription projects enabling millions of new records to be added to online databases.
Census indexes and transcripts are available for all counties across England and Wales — see www.thegenealogist.co.uk for details.
Other Online Genealogical Research Data
It's not just census that you can get online to help with your family history research. TheGenealogist offers all these different types of data in a premium subscription:
- Births, marriages and deaths 1600 - 2005
- Census indexes & transcripts
- Parish records
- Non-conformist records
- Wills, probates & testaments
- Directories
- Military & regimental records
- School, college & university registers
- Peerage & Heritage records
- Newspapers & magazines
- and more...
Why choose TheGenealogist.co.uk?
- Award-winning site
- BMDs 1600-2005
- Census indexes and transcripts 1841 to 1911
- Parish Registers
- The widest coverage: 1127 to 2005
- Quality data, checked by experts
- The widest range of records
- Unique search tools
Find out more at www.thegenealogist.co.uk
Volunteer Indexing Project
S&N cares about the quality of online and CD indexes as much as you do, which is why they are the only company to use a team of UK employees and volunteers to create, check and amend the data. They also licence data from UK individuals and societies.
Why not join the project? - and get rewards
S&N has set up a new site: www.UKindexer.co.uk with a set of bespoke tools that they have developed for their volunteers to use.
www.UKindexer.co.uk is already proving popular and people are enjoying using the new tools.
If you are interested in being involved, why not join the project? Free subscriptions and other rewards are offered to those who help. For details of the indexing project, go to www.UKindexer.co.uk and sign up.