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FreeCEN

     
UK Census Online
"Bringing YOUR ancestors to YOU, free of charge!"

Have YOU ever thought of the benefit of the U.K. Census data being centrally available on ONE database, and being able to trace your ancestors from 1841 to 1891?

This project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns.

FreeCEN is part of Free UK Genealogy CIO, an initiative aimed at helping make high quality primary (or near-primary) records of relevance to UK genealogy conveniently and freely available online, in a coherent, easy to access and search, information retrieval system.
Other projects associated with the FreeUKGEN initiative are FreeBMD and FreeREG. 

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On Fri 14 Dec 2018 FreeCEN users did
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About Volunteering

 

Volunteers

Many volunteers world-wide are working on the transcription.

The number of volunteers has grown since its inception in 1999.
We now have volunteers from all over the world helping us to get more Census Records On-Line for you to search FOC and it continues to grow.

We are constantly looking for new volunteers. We need help with Transcribing and Checking.
We transcribe and check from from CD's/DVD's loaned to you.

To find out more about volunteering, and volunteer to help please visit the sign up page on FreeCEN2: https://freecen2.freecen.org.uk/cms/opportunities-to-volunteer-with-freecen

FreeCEN are working on the 1841. 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 census.
We are continually adding new transcriptions. For further details of how we are progressing please look at the following statistics page on http://www.freecen.org.uk/statistics.html

Please remember to keep coming back to check as we add more Census DATA. If you see errors while using this web site, or while submitting entries to the database, please report them to bowbren@ntlworld.com, saying what you were doing (i.e. submitting, searching), the URL and the exact time (and time zone) that this happened. Thank you.

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Last update
 Nov 16, 2018

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