Release Date for 1926 Census !UPDATE!

Are we expecting the 1926 census to be available from midnight tonight?

Dont think anyone believed that myth.

My maternal line great grandmother was back and forth with her parents. Born in Ireland, younger siblings born in NJ, youngest siblings born back in Ireland, but her parents - my great great grandparents - are buried in Newark.

We all know it happened. We also all know it was fairly rare. These were not rich people but they were also clearly not skint.

The first one - the preview they showed on Nationwide earlier looked like that, but had a little extra to one side along with a map and talk of extra filters….

The older interface (the 2nd link) is due to be retired

I’ve heard that the info will be released in waves. I take it the basic returns will released tomorrow ?

Dropdown is still giving me 1901/11…

I’m getting 1926!

Finding various Heads of Household down with N/A as their indexed age, but a very clear age on the form

God this is amazing. It’s like time travel!

Well, auntie is nowhere to be found either single or married to her known husband. Back to square one.

My paternal grandmother is not there nor are her family. Originally from Belfast - I thought they’d moved south in the early 20s but seemingly not. It must have been later. She married my grandfather in 1930 in Dublin.
I found my father in law born in 1921 in Clare. My own parents are not there yet - 1934 and 1935.

My Dad never liked to talk much about his parents or early family life. I still have no idea where my grandparents on my Dad's side are buried for instance. I asked him once and just got a bank stare. There was always speculation in my family that my Dad's age was very approximate - early 1920's. But this shows his age and approximate birthday was pretty much correct all along - since they only narrow it down to months. He was just 2 years and 10 months on the 18/4/26.

I am very impressed with the neatness of the handwriting given that they must have been using a nibbed pen and bottle of ink - not one blot. Especially my grandads signature - if it indeed was him that signed it. I note there are no details on education or literacy which as far as I recall did get asked in the 1901 and 1911 census?

The form was completed by a Garda Flanagan. Of course Gardai were still doing the census up to the 60's - not sure when they stopped. I recall a Garda calling to my house in 1966 to collect the census form which of course had been left blank on top of the radio my mother telling him it was too complicated for her to fill out so the garda a bit frustrated had to fill it in himself at the kitchen table while I sat at the same table watching this with interest while my mother shouted all the details to him from the back kitchen while she was doing the dishes.

I’m delighted with what I’ve found.

There's a sort of consistent problem of surnames with "rr" in them being transcribed as "r" due to how cursive writing has really, really stupid shaped r's. And there's no corrections box like the old census had (albeit it took years to take affect)