20 October 2014

Census: The Family Historian's Guide

There's a revised edition of Census, Peter Christian and David Annal's guide to the UK and Irish censuses. The slightly altered full title is Census: The Family Historian's Guide. It is no longer published in association with The (UK) National Archives.
Reviews of the previous edition were overwhelmingly positive. Recent criticisms that details of online access in the 2008 edition were dated should be largely addressed although, as the authors point out, changes after their text was finalized in early 2014 are inevitable.

According to the publisher's blurb the new edition has been updated to cover:
  • the many innovations on the main census websites, which have all added new census data and made changes to their facilities in the six years since the first edition;
  • the complete records of the 1911 census for England, Wales and Scotland, now available on both official and other commercial sites; and
  • all the surviving Irish census records, which have now been digitised in their entirety.
Looking for more detail? Check out the authors' article What You Will Find In This Book (pdf).

In Canada the 384 pages paperback edition, $21.74 from amazon.ca is on 1-2 month backorder while available for $9.99 on the Kindle eReader where you can preview the first and part of the second chapter.  Chapters-Indigo has the paperback for $20.19 and at $12.99 for the Kobo eReader.

Peter Christian is also author of The Genealogist's Internet. Davis Annal is author of Easy Family History: The Beginner's Guide to Starting Your Research and co-author, with Audrey Collins, of Birth, Marriage and Death Records: A Guide for Family Historians.

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