Tips and Tricks - The UK Census
Tips 🌳 Read the help 🌳 Search creatively for - spelling variations - transcription errors or omissions - address info via keyword 🌳 Search all sites carrying the record set Help It's important to know what information you might find for any one particular census year. So you are not searching on a field that wasn't collected at that time AND so you can be more creative with your keywords. eg: f irst name Richard keyword Baddow or Lower Green or Galleywood. The various location descriptions for Richard Saveall - who was found indexed at Ancestry as Sareall and at Findmypast as Sarcott . The information about what was collected for any given UK Census record set is available at both Ancestry and Findmypast. Ancestry SCROLL DOWN past the search query information when looking at any one particular census year eg: 1851 UK Keep scrolling down to see the " known pro...