My Life in Twelve Censuses - Part Two
Census at Bethlehem by Pieter Brueghel II The Younger This blog post is submitted as part of the National Family History Month blogging challenge called Genealife in Lockdown as mentioned in this blog post here. Janet Few wrote this blog post which was the inspiration for this second blog post and a previous blog post here . Her blog post was entitled My Life in Seven Censuses. Janet lives in the UK and they take a census every ten years. In fact, it is likely that this might be the last census in the UK; the government considering that it can obtain the information it needs through other means. Let's see what happens. Australia is a bit unique in family history terms in that it has destroyed most of the censuses it has taken over the years. You can read more about the history of the Australian census here. I found Janet's blog post fascinating on a number of levels. It was really interesting to see what kind of dat...