The message below is 'borrowed' from the Devon list via the Genuki maintainers' list. For those keen 'number crunchers' amongst us I'll mention a different but oddly similar new site run by National Statistics, http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk >I've just had details of this National Lottery-funded site sent to me which >is approaching completion. Although it doesn't cover individuals it should >of interest to anyone who wants to know more about a particular area over a >period of time: > http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk >This site contains information about local areas from the 2001 census, and >from every earlier British census back to 1801. It will contain a systematic >historical gazetteer covering the administrative units of Great Britain over >the last two centuries. > >There are also a number of statistical themes: Population, Life and Death, >Industry, >Work and Poverty, Social Structure, Housing, Learning and Religion. You can, >for example, compare infant mortality in 1851 in your chosen area with >infant mortality in the same area today. Gareth List administrator for DYFED, CGN & PEM Genuki Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ Lookup Exchange http://home.clara.net/tirbach/lookup.html Help Page http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html .