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The 1911 census is a record of everyone who lived in England and Wales in 1911. It provides a unique snapshot of the lives of your ancestors. www.1911census.co.uk brings this vast resource to you online, so that you can search the census simply and quickly to discover how your family lived in the past.

www.1911census.co.uk is the official census website, in association with The National Archives. You can now subscribe to the 1911 census  on the site www.findmypast.co.uk .


The 1911 census is complete

The 1911 census is complete – all remaining records have been added, and so have the RG78 enumerator’s summary book pages. Records for the Islands of Alderney, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey and Sark, troops stationed in overseas military bases, and crew serving on Royal Navy ships are now ready for you to search.

Find Britain’s soldiers and sailors all over the globe

In 1911 the British Empire was nearing the peak of its powers. The empire, which was the largest in history, spanned much of the globe, and the overseas military records from the 1911 census – which include both military establishments and Royal Navy ships overseas – reflect this. Soldiers can be found in such disparate locations as Cyprus, Hong Kong, Malta, India and South Africa, as well as in other places not within the empire, such as Alexandria in Egypt and Tientsin in China.

View the enumerator’s summary-book pages at no extra cost

The pages from the enumerator’s summary books, which are now available for the entire census, can add depth to your 1911 census research. The summary books are a combination of descriptive and statistical information from the district. The information to be found in the List and the District description are probably of most interest to the family historian and can give you an overall picture of your ancestor’s neighbourhood and its character.

The Enumerator’s summary pages are included in the cost of viewing an image. If you’ve already viewed 1911 census images, you can now view the corresponding summary-book pages at no extra cost. 

The reason there is a cost to downloading documents is that the 1991 Census database is much larger than earlier ones and so the National Archives collaborated with its commercial partners to make it possible for us to be able to access the vast number of records it contains.
 
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