I have just recieved this message from the ENG-HEREFORDSHIRE Roots list, thought you might be interested. Not sure if this is already known to everyone? Has just come to my notice that Downing Street are holding an online petition for the early release of the 1911 census. In fact, the petition if successful, will reduce the waiting time for release of census material from 100 years to 70 years. Less than 7000 have voted so far. Time runs out early March. Please inform your contacts as this is not common knowledge. Web site is http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/censusinfofreed Anne Walter

Hi Anne This is all very interesting, but the 1911 census is already being released early, in 2009. It will take that long to transcribe and digitize the records. The only information being withheld until 2012 is medical information. See TNA for more info http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm So what's the point of the petition? If the 70 years period is achieved (which I doubt) the only other one we'll get access to is 1921. If my memory serves me correctly, the 1931 census was destroyed and 1941 wasn't taken (though I may be wrong). Kind regards Mike > > I have just recieved this message from the ENG-HEREFORDSHIRE Roots list, > thought you might be interested. > > Not sure if this is already known to everyone? > Has just come to my notice that Downing Street are holding an online > petition for the early release of the 1911 census. In fact, the petition > if > successful, > will reduce the waiting time for release of census material from 100 years > to 70 years. > Less than 7000 have voted so far. Time runs out early March. Please inform > your contacts as this is not > common knowledge. Web site is > > http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/censusinfofreed > > > Anne Walter > > > ==== DUR-NBL Mailing List ==== > To Post a message to this list send it to, > DUR-NBL-L@rootsweb.com > > ==== DUR-NBL Mailing List ==== > List Web Page > http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/durhamgenealogy/index.phtml > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUR-NBL- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message

Is it not the case that what will be available for the 1911 in 2009 is a kind of seach facility carried out by the Nat. Archives themselves at a fee of about 45GBP per search? This is what understood the information on the Nat. Archives site to mean. I stand to be corrected if I am wrong. Regards Jenny DeAngelis. Spain. > Hi Anne > This is all very interesting, but the 1911 census is already being > released > early, in 2009. It will take that long to transcribe and digitize the > records. The only information being withheld until 2012 is medical > information. > > See TNA for more info http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm >