1921 England & Wales Census - some tips and tricks
The 1921 England & Wales census - some tips and tricks A page from a 1921 census return - original image from The National Archives in Class RG15 Today, early 2022, the only public access available to see returns from the 1921 census is through FindMyPast. This access is charged on a pay per view basis (unless you use FindMyPast on computers based at The National Archives and a couple of other locations, in which case access is free). FindMyPast provides a search engine allowing you to search on more than 35 different fields. You may think this should make it easy to find any record, but the number of fields available can instead lead you to over-search and get no results. First, the bad news. This searchable index is chock full of transcription errors. Remember, what you are doing when you search is scouring the index that the FindMyPast website makes available to you; this index was created by transcribing the contents of all of the census returns and entering this data into a c