Do you have to pay to look at cencus's to get family information

[silver12]

Hi
Is there any sites free when you can look at old cencus records to get information about people. Im back after months off and wanting to start researching again thanks

[hallmark]

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/  is free.

[groom]

For censuses try:

FreeCen  www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

or FamilySearch   www.familysearch.org/search

[MonicaL]

Check also at your local library. Many give you access from their computers at the libraries to Ancestry and Find My Past sites.

Monica

[JohninSussex]

Hi silver12,

The FamilySearch web site is free but you have to log in first.  For England/Wales census (not "cencus"!) they give more detail than they used to, for most if not all years 1841-1911 if you search for a name you can see the other names in the household.  If you need to see the images you will need to use FindMyPast which you may be able to use free at a local library etc.  This wlll give occupations etc which aren't always included in the FamilySearch information.
For Scotland you may have to use ScotlandsPeople, I don't know much about any alternatives.

[ev]

Just to add-
Groom has already mentioned FreeCEN , check the coverage here -
https://www.freecen.org.uk/statistics.html


ev