1971 Census

[Necromancer]

1951 - Malaya
1961 - South Africa
1971 - Canada
1981 - California
1991 - Ireland
2001 - cant remember if I had a form


So, basically its the BMD and a brick wall for someone researching me !

 

[Vasquez109]

Thats certainly going to cause some headaches in 100 years time!

[Necromancer]

already is   

[IndisVanyar]

You can see the 1971 blank form here:
 
http://www.celsius.lshtm.ac.uk/modules/forms/census1971.html

I was living in a bed sit in London - if I filled a form in will it appear as a multi-occupancy dwelling so similar to the ones I keep finding my relatives living in, in the 18whatever date census'

Nell

[Vasquez109]

Oooh! Lot more information than the 41 to 01's on ancestry that we're used to!

[Jean McGurn]

Posted by: stanmapstone  Posted on: Yesterday at 11:17:00 

All the original records of the 1931 census were destroyed by fire in 1942, so a blank of the schedule would not be much use as it will never be available
This means that there are no original census schedules for the decades between 1921 and 1951
 

What about the Electral Rolls. Would one be able to trace from them?

Jean

[stanmapstone]

With great difficulty  and only adults eligible to vote will be listed
After 1918 it became obligatory to arrange the lists in the larger towns by street and house number , the electoral registers being arranged by polling district or ward, and then by street or road. This arrangement is a major drawback for the genealogist and even with a street address a search may take a great deal of time. There should, however, be a composite index showing which streets and parts of streets are in each polling district.
However before the Second World War some London boroughs began to compile indexes of the surnames of electors in their areas. With the advent of computers the practice became widespread in the 1980s, the current electoral register being produced in most areas both alphabetically by surname and in street order.

Stan

[mongoose2]

something people forget is the impact of the Poll Tax on census records and also the Electoral records as many people either didnt fill them in or falsified them so that they wouldnt pay the tax

Bazza

[Vasquez109]

What sort of information does the electoral roll hold?