Back to the future?

[jinks]

If a child is illegitimate The Father can be named
on the birth certificate if he is present and therefore
accepts the child as his own the child can then be
known with the fathers name. The couple do not need to be married.

Jinks

I would say that this maybe a help to people in the
future. Knowing BOTH parents. Not just the mother.


 

[Lloydy]

With the current trend of giving babies extremely ridiculous names, think of the future census returns........

[sallysmum]

On a different tangent often wondered when unreadable handwriting will stop being an obstacle to getting all the info from registers,etc when researching your tree. When up in Edinburgh last week noticed that while the info on certificates obtained when registering events was mainly typed on a typewriter the actual entries in the registers sent to Register House(the ones that will be used to research mainly in the future) was handwritten at least into the 1980s.

We got married in the Bahamas and were duly issued with 2 type written certificates, both of which were full of typos, but the same mistakes were not replicated!
Sallysmum

[Comosus]

I presume they'll end up adding something other than an "=".  On my software anyway, on printed trees, there's no way of telling if they were married or not.  Adding a "~" or a "-" would be an easy way of telling the difference.

Andrew

[hcoldron]

My partner and I were talking about this the other day (although he's more concerned with getting a cool job by 2011 for that census!)

I think one of the difficult bits for future generations will be how much more we move around now - taking myself as an example, in the last six years I have lived in seven different houses across four counties between London and York!

I do wonder, though, what on Earth my descendents will think when they see my 2001 census return, as my religion (like many other students) is down as Jedi. (!) I was excited to find that I had not-CofE in my tree, so how much fun will they have with that?

Brilliant. 

[Lemontree]

Hi

It could get harder over the next 40-50 years, one reson will be the missing 1931 and 1941 census.

After 2021 we will have to wait 30 years for another census, this being 2051 - dont think I will be around then!

So much information is gleened from the cenus that we can't obtain from other sources, family members ages, relationships to each other, occupation, how many rooms there were in the house etc.

We will hopefully still have electorole registers, telephone directories/street directories, school records. They dont though give quite the same as the good ole census.

It is going to be dissapointing after the 1921 census knowing that all the information has been lost or not collected after this until 1951, leaving so many people out of the system - a whole generation can be lost here