Claire Bradley is a Dublin-based genetic genealogist specialising in ancestry from Ireland
The current issue of Family Tree Magazine features an article by yours truly on the 1926 census. If you’re a member of Family Tree Plus, you can also watch back my companion talk from last month. If you’re not a member, you can get a free 7 day trial.
Now that the excitement of the census release has begun to settle, we’re starting to get into the nitty gritty of it. We now have options for accessing it on a few different sites I know some readers of my blog will love a good source citation, so here’s how to understand and cite the…
Barely a wet week has passed since the 1926 census has launched and Ancestry has already got a trancribed version on their site. Presumably this will be the same transcription as on the National Archives version because they couldn’t have re-transcribed it themselves so quickly and the Creative Commons licence means they can just take…
The Story of Us is a companion book released on Monday to tie in with the launch of the 1926 census. It’s edited by Orlaith McBride (Director of the National Archives) and John Gibney of the Royal Irish Academy. The book is comprised of 29 short chapters, divided into 4 sections: The chapters are authored…
I don’t want to be negative about this amazing new free resource, but inevitably when a large dataset is transferred from handwritting to transcriptions and digital images, errors creep in. The newly released data was created with machine reading, OCR technology and human input. You can read more about the process in new book The…
It’s here 100 years to the day at 00:01 on 18th April 2026, the National Archives has gifted genealogists and historians with the long-awaited public release of the Irish Free State’s 1926 census. The link to search is here. It’s free to access and you don’t need to register an account. What’s on it? This…