Hi folks, http://www.belfastfamilyhistory.com/index.html has the 1911 census on line for West Belfast (Shankill area). More info is here: http://50connect.co.uk/index.asp?main=http%3A//50connect.co.uk/50c/articlepages/genealogy_index.asp%3Fsc%3Dgene%26aID%3D14270 "A new website has been launched to provide a unique glimpse of life in Belfast before the Great War and Partition, offering a fascinating insight into the life of residents living in the Shankill and Falls wards of West Belfast in 1911. Created by BelFam, The Belfast Family and Community History group, under the direction of Professor Kennedy, of the School of History at Queens University, www.belfastfamilyhistory.com contains the names, addresses, occupations, religion, marital status, number of children, place of birth and housing conditions of more than 30,000 people, who were living in the Falls and the Shankill wards of West Belfast in 1911. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund NI, the core of the website is provided by the original forms from Census Night, Sunday 02 April, 1911. The handwritten records are amongst the richest sources available to local historians. Users of the new website can choose to search for a particular person, individual addresses or use the advanced search facility to select attributes and view them for each person in a street. The site also provides the facility to compare information on one household from that time, with those in other streets. House size, type of house, number of rooms, literacy levels, the number of sick, languages spoken and religious denomination are just some of the statistics available. Professor Kennedy says that the cultural heritage of Belfast is more complex than many of us imagine. "Now, via our new website, it is possible to see the great similarities between Protestant and Catholic working class families and indeed the extent to which their residence patterns intermingled." "It is fascinating to discover how, in a way barely imaginable nowadays, some streets in West Belfast, particularly in the Grosvenor Road area, were shared by both Protestants and Catholics. Protestants lived on and off the Falls areas and likewise Catholics lived on and off the Shankill area. Some households in the areas also contained both Protestants and Catholics." For those wishing to explore the social past in greater depth, information on areas such as marriage patterns, family size, migration, housing conditions, religious denominations and occupational structure, is also available to community groups, educational institutions and local history from BelFam. For further information visit: www.belfastfamilyhistory.com" Linda Merle