#1926census — Public Fediverse posts

Over the weekend, in the continued search to try to look for very localised names, I was looking at Heneghan's in the 1926 census living outside of Connaught - to see if any were born outside of Connaught. Only one family (widow & daughters fit that description).
But I also found that the head of household of Fastnet Lighthouse was a Patrick Heneghan from Blacksod.
#1926Census #1926IrelandCensus
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Another useless thing about the 1926 census: because it doesn't list religion in the initial search result for a name or street, etc, it's impossible to verify my immediate impression that certain streets that were filled with Protestant civil servants in 1911 are now filled with Catholic civil servants in 1926. As a social research tool, it's crap. #census #1926census

Trying to go through the #1926census there and it absolutely does not help that everyone got one of two names, (hello Denis and Jeremiah) and then to differentiate, got called by their middle name, which doesn't appear in the census.

Wtf was uncle Pats' real name? No way Kathleen is a pet name for Catherine. What the actual?

In light of the release of the #1926Census - Project Infant volunteers are currently working on adding enhanced transcripts of the 1901, 1911 and 1926 censuses for various institutions in Ireland.

You can view the ones we have so far (with more on the way) here: https://projectinfant.ie/census

One of the problems with using AI - I was puzzled that I couldn't find any Ceannt women.
Anyone - absolutely anyone - who filled out the form in Irish and listed her name as "Bean uí duine-éigin" - well, her surname is listed as "Bean" 😂
Its equivalent in English would be listing her surname as "Mrs"
#AI #1926Census #census #Ireland

I wonder what the most geographically concentrated surname in the #1926Census was (excluding super rare names essentially representing one family)?
Let's put a minimum of 200 people in the country with the same surname (which excludes Tohers).
One of my other 3 grandparents surnames: over 98% in one county, the next most popular county only had 2 with the surname!
In that county they were spread between 16 DEDs, but over 20% were in the one DED, and almost 60% were spread between just 4 DEDs.

Huh. Looking at my mother's household entry in the #1926census. She had a sibling who died in childhood that I never knew about.

The Irish 1926 Census records are finally live!
Marking the first census of the Irish Free State, these records offer an incredible look at Ireland a century ago. Remarkably, over 1,000 people listed in the original 1926 files are still with us today. #1926Census #Ireland #Genealogy #History https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/history/more-1000-recorded-1926-census-33796255

@baoigheallain Exactly. They must not have talked to people who actually use the censuses a lot, who'd have told them that the person's trade and place of birth, and the house number of the current house are essential things to have on the front search page, for functional use
#1926census #CensusOfIreland #census #Ireland

Really enjoying finding family (and extended connections) in the #1926Census records.

I seem to be finding them faster/easier than other family members so I have some tips.

Use first letter of first name as a search term (too many name variants over time mean that fixing the first name too early can make you miss it). If using initial of 1st name, also include sex in the search to narrow it down. As does knowing approx age. (1/2)

Help. I've fallen down a 1926 Census hole, and I can't get out.

#1926Census #MastoDaoine

Well, the new #1926census was useful for my mam.
She found out that her mother was the oldest child of all her siblings.

I wish I could have the next ones to find out more about my fathers side of the family. But if the next one is 1933 (Following the 7-year rule if that was a thing then), then it would still be too early (My granddad was born in '35)

11) But the worst of all these are 1: not having street numbers listed on the first page of the search, 2: not having the profession of each person listed, 3: not having the birthplace listed - which are really essential for a clear and simple search.
For instance, imagine how useful it is to search for, say, Grafton Street and see who lives at which number, what each person's profession is and where they're from - it would be fabulous social information @ccferrie
#1926census #census #Ireland

8) Final note - the lack of a number means you can't see what's happened to a particular house on a road - you'll have to open the results and then download the household form and rotate it for sometimes hundreds of names before you find who's living in one particular house. This is baaad functionality
#Census #1926census #Ireland

1) Hmm, the 1926 Census (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/ - soon to be taken offline for chrissake - seems to be a bit of a kludge.
Here's the 1911 census when you look for a name and pull up the results with "show all information" checked - it gives you all of the information except the house number (which should be there too)
@ccferrie
#1926census #census #Ireland

#Ireland #genealogy #1926Census #VitalRecords #free

IrishCentral: Find your family history online - Ireland's 1926 Census is being digitized

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/family-history-online-irelands-1926-census