Template:British Census

Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is. To view these census images online, they are available through a number of websites for a fee ($) or free.


 * FamilySearch now has all of the British Censuses available.
 * FindMyPast ($) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries.
 * Ancestry.co.uk ($) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. The library versions are known as AncestryInstitution.com.
 * The Genealogist.co.uk ($) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries.
 * FreeCen is a UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.

Here is the template I have come up with for the 25 or so pages I am working on in Suffolk: There is already a page with all the links to the census sites, so I see no point in entering them again, so I link to them, subscription and other websites. There is over 500 parishes in Suffolk and many have very samll populations. The part I strike out pertains to the relevance of microfilm census records. It could be reworded. I can go to the Family History Library and get all the indexes and images right on the computer, so the micorfilm is of little relevance. If I go to a family history center to order a microfilm, but they have it on computer like the family history library, so I would not order the microfilm there since I have access to the images there. The selling point of the census sites is the indexes that they have, without the indexes, the microfilm would be revelvant. It wasn't that many years ago when there were no indexes. Another point I would like to make about linking to a census film number is that in (Metfield)my template I link to the parish in the catalogue, so the census is easy to find. I think people are smart enough to go to the parish listing and pick out the census, cemetery or what ever they are looking for. Pertaining to Suffolk most of the parishes are very small and only have a few listings to begin with, 2, 3 or 4. Another link I have in my template is to the the Suffolk Census. If I have over 500 links to a website and it changes then I have to change 500 pages, but if I link it to Suffolk Census then I only have one page to change rather than all of them. If no one wants to link to England Census Records and Indexes Online then it would make more censuses to link to the County Census page and put the above template there rather than on every parish page. I will have more comments on the discussion page Donjgen 19:41, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Census records
Census records are available on a variety of subscription and other websites. It is unlikely that you will need to consult the 1841 to 1891 census on microfilm, since the census records are online at Family History Centers, archives, and various libraries. When the microfilm is required, consult the Family History Library Catalogue for film numbers. There is statistical data available for the census years 1801 to 1931 that records the number of houses, families, people, and other statistical data for every parish in Suffolk. Refer to the Suffolk Census wiki article for details about the Census.