Ancestry.co.uk has finished adding the second part of the 1911 Census transcriptions. Records covering London, Lancashire, Yorkshire and 17 other counties are now fully searchable.
Unlike any previous censuses, this one provides you with the actual forms your ancestors filled in, complete with their handwriting and signatures.
Here’s a full list of the areas that are now searchable:
Channel Islands
Cheshire
Cornwall
Cumberland
Derbyshire
Devon
Durham
Isle of Man
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
London
Norfolk
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Royal Navy
Rutland
Wales
Warwickshire
Westmorland
Worcestershire
Yorkshire – East Riding
Yorkshire – North Riding
Yorkshire – West Riding
All the scanned records are now available online with more than half of them now searchable. Ancestry.co.uk is still working on the remaining transcriptions with an expected completion date in 2012.
You can search the 1911 U.K. Census now at http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/group/1911uki. You can search the index free of charge but a Premium membership is required to view the actual census forms. A 14 day free trial is available with details to be found at http://search.ancestry.co.uk
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