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[smuckerooney]

Anyone tell me please if GRO has the 1851 census on board please?

Many thanks

Rog
Glasgow

[RJ_Paton]

If you mean Scotlands people ..... GROS's partners who provide the online facility ..... then the short answer is no. (after 2 years of promises they have only recently managed to get the 1861 online and I believe that they are taking a more realistic approach to future promised timescales)

However if you visit freecen some of the 1851 and 1841 census records are online and searchable http://freecen.rootsweb.com/

[smuckerooney]

Hi Falk,
          Sorry, I could have made that a lot clearer.  If I go to GRO in Edinburgh and book a seat is the 1851 census there for me to use yet?

Sorry about that

Rog

[RJ_Paton]

have a look at click here for an idea of what is available

PS in that case the short answer is yes 

[RJ_Paton]

If in Glasgow you could also check out the excellent facilities at the Mitchell Library at Charing Cross or the Records office at Park Circus in Glasgow

[susieq]

But if you don't want to pay to go to GROS for a day or a half day, go to the George the IV Bridge library, off the royal Mile,where they have the census records on microfilm, and it's free. They also have the OPR's on M/F.

[Forfarian]

If I go to GRO in Edinburgh and book a seat is the 1851 census there for me to use yet?

Yes. It has been available there for decades.

However you can also get at the 1851 census free of charge, in variousl libraries. Which library depends on where you are interested in.

Edinburgh Central Library has the counties of Shetland, Orkney, Caithness. Sutherland, Ross and Cromarty, Inverness, Nairn, Fife, Stirling, Clackmannan, West Lothian (aka Linlithgowshire), Midlothian (aka Edinburghshire), East Lothian (aka Haddingtonshire), Berwick, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Peebles, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Wigtown and Ayr.

The Mitchell Library in Glasgow has the counties of Lanark, Bute, Renfrew, Dunbarton, Stirling, Argyll and Ayr.

The Tay Valley Family History Society in Dundee has the counties of Angus (aka Forfarshire), Fife, Kincardine, Perth and Kinross.

Aberdeen Public Library and the Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society have the counties of Kincardine, Aberdeen, Banff and Moray (aka Elginshire).

The above list is not exhaustive - there are many more libraries and family history societies who have some census microfilms (e.g Inverness Public Library has the counties of Shetland, Orkney, Caithness. Sutherland, Ross and Cromarty, Inverness and Nairn), but these four between them cover the whole of Scotland's 33 counties.

So save your paid-for time at the GRO in New Register House for BMD certificates, and use the free libraries for census (and OPRs).