Update to census search on NAI

On the bright side, assuming the 1926 Census is eventually added to the "New" site, any bugs should be well ironed out before the launch in April 2026.

Making the search difficult to use thick’s all the boxes for modern accessibility!
Someone didn’t read the brief properly.

The 1926 census is the first census where people completed it in Irish using the old Irish script. This is causing an extra challenge for the digitisation.

One peculiar aspect of the new site is that some of the data has been re-transcribed e.g. A person who on the original hand written form had written "no occupation" had exactly that transcribed on the old site, but on the new site has "unemployed" - this is rather misleading considering that she was 69!

Aghhh, just used irishgeneaology and the new search results layout are so awful compared to the old version IMO. The results of a simple search gave me 175 records on 18 pages (10 pp) to scroll through. The old output would have been about 3 pages with a list of records easily visible at a glance.

How can anyone think this is better? Who makes these decisions? Do professional genealogists have any input into decisions made by public servants who are not the users of these services? It is bonkers.

Edit: maybe it’s just me and other users prefer the new search results ☹️

Not sure but I’ve mostly used it on a mobile. I find the new layout cumbersome and time consuming compared to the previous version.

Sorry, didn’t realise there was a separate thread.