That sounds very interesting. I hope you'll let us know when it's completed and available. Thank You Mary in CT, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "brian magaoidh" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 5:47 PM Subject: West Belfast Familes 1911on the Internet > Hi all, > I have just come back from an enjoyable talk given by Eddine Khaoury from > the School of History in Queens University, Belfast. > He is involved in a project whereby the details of 1911 Census pertaining > to West Belfast may soon be on the internet. I have copied part of the > blurb from the Queens site, which can be found at: > http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistory/Research/MajorResearchProjects/ > > Description of Project > The details of every household in Belfast early this century are available > in the census records in National Archives in Dublin. ...These census > forms are a unique source for individuals exploring family histories as > well as for local history groups and others, .. Among the wider issues > illuminated by these records are people's occupations, age at marriage, > family size, migration into Belfast from the countryside, levels of > education, and the extent to which different religious groups lived side > by side. ....The project offers a window on life in West Belfast in the > years before the Great War and Partition. The major sources are the census > returns for Belfast in 1901 and 1911, supplemented by photographs and > street maps, as well as contemporary accounts of the lives of the people. > The images and information will be placed on a special website, and will > also be published in CD-rom form. > > I am sure everyone will support this project and I am looking forward to > it being completed. > > > - ------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Better first dates. More second dates. Yahoo! Personals > > ______________________________ >