Media Releases
- Major new family history resource
51,884 people on the Isle of Man were recorded in the census taken on the night of Sunday, 2 April, 1911. After nearly 100 years, the Isle of Man census records are now available to view at www.1911census.co.uk.
Channel Islands 1911 Census records go online today
June 18th, 2009- Major new family history resource for Jersey, Guernsey, Sark and Alderney
96,836 people in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark were recorded in the census taken on the night of Sunday, 2 April, 1911. Today, after nearly 100 years, the Channel Islands census records are available to view at www.1911census.co.uk.
Entire 1911 Census now available online for the first time
June 18th, 2009- 1911 census drives boom in genealogy: quarter of Britons have researched family tree
- Records for Wales, Channel Islands and Isle of Man and military serving overseas now online
Research commissioned by 1911census.co.uk reveals nearly a quarter of the population (23%) have now actively researched their family tree*, with 2.9 million people having visited 1911census.co.uk to research their own ancestors’ census records since the website went live in January this year**. The pastime is now just as popular as participating in team sports and overtaking other popular hobbies such as making Twitter posts and blogging (11%) and bingo (13%).
Wales 1911 Census goes online
June 9th, 2009-
Online access to the records of 2.4 million people living in Wales in 1911
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Major new family history resource
2.4 million people were recorded living in Wales in the census taken on the night of Sunday, 2 April, 1911. Today, after nearly 100 years, the Welsh census records are available to the public at www.1911census.co.uk.
Yorkshire 1911 Census records go online
March 24th, 2009- Online access to the records of 3,968,664 million people living in Yorkshire in 1911
- Major new family history resource
3.7 million people in Yorkshire were recorded in the census taken on the night of Sunday, 2 April, 1911. After nearly 100 years, the Yorkshire census records are now available to view at www.1911census.co.uk.
Durham 1911 Census records go online
March 24th, 2009- Online access to the records of 1.3 million people living in County Durham in 1911
- Major new family history resource
1,377,027 people in County Durham were recorded in the census taken on the night of Sunday, 2 April, 1911. After nearly 100 years, the Durham census records are now available to view at www.1911census.co.uk.
1911 Census - first day results
January 14th, 2009
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3.4 MILLION SEARCHES ON WWW.1911CENSUS.CO.UK IN FAMILY HISTORY FRENZY
The hotly anticipated 1911 census was successfully launched yesterday with 645,000 people logging on to www.1911census.co.uk to conduct 3.4 million searches to view the census records on the first day of release.
brightsolid announce successful launch of online 1911 census
January 14th, 2009-
MORE THAN 17 MILLION PAGE VIEWS ON THE FIRST DAY PROVIDING ACCESS TO RECORDS OF 36 MILLION PEOPLE IN 1911
The 1911 census has been successfully launched with 645,000 people logging on to www.1911census.co.uk to conduct 3.4 million searches and view the census records on the first day of release. The launch received significant media interest and handled the huge volume of traffic with ease.
1911 Census launches online
January 13th, 2009-
ONLINE ACCESS TO THE RECORDS OF 36 MILLION PEOPLE IN 1911
- MAJOR NEW FAMILY HISTORY RESOURCE
36 million people were recorded in the census taken on the night of Sunday, 2 April, 1911. Today, after nearly 100 years, these census records are available to the public at www.1911census.co.uk.