In a message dated 08/01/2007 09:45:49 GMT Standard Time, zen34780@zen.co.uk writes: At, or soon after, the time of the census were copies of the details transcribed (perhaps locally) or was the Government just interested in "numbers" rather than names? ____________________________________________________________________________ The details from the Household Schedules were copied by the enumerator into the enumeration books, which are what you see on Ancestry and other sites. The Household Schedules were destroyed. The Enumerators Books were sent to the Census Office in London for the extraction of statistics which were then published. The censuses were carried out for statistical purposes and not for future family historians (: - )) Regards Stan Mapstone