David Annis
07-09-2009, 4:04 PM
At the risk of boring a few good folk on here, is there any chance of persuading the powers that be to release the 1921 census.
My reason for this is very selfish, I may not be around in 2021 and will more than likely have joined the "Daisy Apprecation Society"
In the First World War nearly every family lost relatives. Famlies were split up,
leaving widows and orphans. Whole families moved to new locations and some to different parts of the country. The war effort brought new employment so that was another reason to up sticks and move to a different location.
By 1921 the family losses would be starkly apparent and the changes to the family membership would show clearly what the war had done to change there lives forever. The release would answer so many questions and also solve so many riddles. It would also show how the British pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and carried on after such a terrible war.
As far as I know there was never any agreement when the census was taken that its contents would only be released after 100yrs. It is my understanding
that the Americans have released their census's up as far as the 1940's.
No dought someone will pick up on that one.
Anyone born in 1921 will be around 88yrs old now and I cannot see many objecting to its release in fact they may be tickled pink to see there families remembered in print.
Census's are taken at the time by Goverments to gain important facts concerning the population but after a few decades have past they no longer hold such importance but slide into being important historical facts and figures
that would do no harm if we were all allowed to see them.
Cheers
Dave.
My reason for this is very selfish, I may not be around in 2021 and will more than likely have joined the "Daisy Apprecation Society"
In the First World War nearly every family lost relatives. Famlies were split up,
leaving widows and orphans. Whole families moved to new locations and some to different parts of the country. The war effort brought new employment so that was another reason to up sticks and move to a different location.
By 1921 the family losses would be starkly apparent and the changes to the family membership would show clearly what the war had done to change there lives forever. The release would answer so many questions and also solve so many riddles. It would also show how the British pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and carried on after such a terrible war.
As far as I know there was never any agreement when the census was taken that its contents would only be released after 100yrs. It is my understanding
that the Americans have released their census's up as far as the 1940's.
No dought someone will pick up on that one.
Anyone born in 1921 will be around 88yrs old now and I cannot see many objecting to its release in fact they may be tickled pink to see there families remembered in print.
Census's are taken at the time by Goverments to gain important facts concerning the population but after a few decades have past they no longer hold such importance but slide into being important historical facts and figures
that would do no harm if we were all allowed to see them.
Cheers
Dave.