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SweeneyTodd

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Northam Saint said:
It will even be useful in 100 years time when everyone can see it. Compared with Census’s of old it does ask a lot more. Some of my family have 14 people in one house ! Hey there was no TV back then !
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As a fountain-pen wielding Luddite, I have, as per tradition, submitted ours on paper. I don't suppose the more recent Censuses will ever have the interest and value that poring over the old paper ones affords, and raw statistics aren't quite the same. I'm fortunate (or perhaps not) in that my "far" past is more recent than many, as a result of late and deferred marriages, through choice and two World Wars; for example, my paternal grandfather was born in 1873. Both sides of the family have also lived hereabouts for a couple of centuries, so our records in the Censuses are a reflection of oral and written (deeds, wills etc.) family history. To my relief, we seem to have been a law-abiding bunch, with no murders, bigamies or similar misdeeds on offer.
 
Northam Saint

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SweeneyTodd said:
As a fountain-pen wielding Luddite, I have, as per tradition, submitted ours on paper. I don't suppose the more recent Censuses will ever have the interest and value that poring over the old paper ones affords, and raw statistics aren't quite the same. I'm fortunate (or perhaps not) in that my "far" past is more recent than many, as a result of late and deferred marriages, through choice and two World Wars; for example, my paternal grandfather was born in 1873. Both sides of the family have also lived hereabouts for a couple of centuries, so our records in the Censuses are a reflection of oral and written (deeds, wills etc.) family history. To my relief, we seem to have been a law-abiding bunch, with no murders, bigamies or similar misdeeds on offer.
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I will be interested in the 1921 when it’s available as it may fill in a few things on my family tree. I can go back to 1532 back when my family owned land and a castle in Scotland. Down one line I have a relation who was one of Wyatt Earp’s deputies. My Great Grand Father was in the local news once as someone tried to stab him, he as in the end, on a different occasion, murdered. He was a heavy gambler who once won a house in a game of cards. Plenty though we poor glove makers in Worcester lining 12-14 in a one up one down in a slum area. I’m itching one day to get one of them DNA tests which I’ve no doubt will again confirm the nobility side of the male line.
 
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Fascinating stuff! Do you have an American branch extant? I imagine the 1921 Census will be a sad thing to read, filled as it will be with war widows, fatherless children and Servicemen damaged by the War.

Family histories, once revealed, certainly bear out the old saw "Truth is stranger than Fiction" and this doubtless accounts for the interest in the television programmes on this subject, especially the backgrounds of well-known people.
 
Northam Saint

Northam Saint

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SweeneyTodd said:
Fascinating stuff! Do you have an American branch extant? I imagine the 1921 Census will be a sad thing to read, filled as it will be with war widows, fatherless children and Servicemen damaged by the War.

Family histories, once revealed, certainly bear out the old saw "Truth is stranger than Fiction" and this doubtless accounts for the interest in the television programmes on this subject, especially the backgrounds of well-known people.
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Not gone fully down that path on the US side. I have so many on my family tree, and haven’t even followed my grandmothers line. She had a very olive complexion and I think we may well find some mixed/Mediterranean heritage there.

also aware of further US and my grandmother had a sister, Great Aunt Fanny, (stop sniggering) LOL she sailed off to New York.
 
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