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« on: Thursday 03 November 22 12:16 GMT (UK) »
For info :- Dear Malcolm,
Thank you for contacting ScotlandsPeople.
Our preparations for publication of the 1921 census were unavoidably delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Restrictions put in place to ensure staff and customer safety, in line with Scottish Government advice, meant that we had been unable to access the 1921 images that are held securely on-site or the related reference material. We are now working on the publication project as a high priority but the 1921 Census contains more than four million individual records held on 200,000 digital images. Publication of such a large record set is highly complex and time consuming, requiring manual transcription, indexing and extensive quality assurance.
This work is currently taking place and we plan to publish images of the 1921 Scottish Census on scotlandspeople.gov.uk as soon as we can. Unfortunately, we cannot be any more specific than this at present but will provide further updates when we can via our website and social media channels.
Kind regards,
Roslyn
Customer Services