Release Date for 1926 Census !UPDATE!

Fascinating. In the languages column is she saying Irish and English? I'd have expected 'Gailge'. Also I didn't know she spoke English. I've never learned enough Irish to converse, just the odd phrase here and there but I've always liked the old Irish script which I what I learned at school. I wonder if computers could cope with it.

They can cope fine - choice of adapting keyboard strokes or by downloading a program. https://www.gaelchlo.com/bungc.html

My grandfather completed the 1926 census in Irish using Clo Gaelach script and the OCR did a good job, replacing a few ' seimhius with 'h's. Unfortunately he used a strange / unfamiliar Irish spellings of surname and christian names, and it took quite a bit of detective work to find the family. Although Form B used the English version of the surname the search function didn't find it.

i can read it also - perhaps those who cannot read it have reached their limit of 'free views'/

I can see images on ANCESTRY when I looked last night, 29 April. Still there today.

How do the two compare for searching? Clever of Ancestry to reduce costs by linking to an external database.

My Ancestry sub laosed some time ago, haven't renewed, hoping for an offer. It seems that they are offering discounts on the DNA tests and making the profit on the subs - the tests are useless without a sub.

My great grandmother died on the 21 of April 1926 which is a few days after the census was taken. Funny my great grandfather filled in the census and has himself down as a widow.He also had to write mother is dead after all the kids details. I guess with all that had happen the form likely wasn't filled in on the correct date. Must of been tough for him 36 with 5 kids to raise.

Just to follow up from my post earlier this morning. My 2x great grandfather was 81 not 80 and he actually died around September of 1926. In the column about number of years married he put 51 years. Irish was his first language which I was happy to see.

This census has mostly clarified stuff for me and there’s been a couple of names that nobody seems to have ever heard of. I have one real mystery that this census hasn’t helped its seems one of my ancestors has completely vanished by 1926 and I’ve not found a death record for her or any record for that matter after the 1911 census.

I had a look there yesterday, found the location and age of a grand uncle that my father was pestering me about for ages. Couldn’t find him on the 1911 census due to a number of issues.But found him in the 1926 one. Turns out that he must have lived into his 90’s. I wouldn’t have believed that.

What I also noticed was the grand uncle’s signature. The way he signed his surname looked identical to the way my brother signs his. That threw him. It’s great the way you can see little quirks like that.

On first glance it seems the 1926 census is a lot more ordered, and easier to search than the 1911 one.