1901 Ireland Census

The 1901 census of Ireland (index and images) from the National Archives Ireland has been made available for free.

1828 NSW Census on Ancestry

This new Australian database contains the 1828 census of New South Wales. Information recorded on the census includes: name of inhabitant, age, whether bond or free, name of ship on which arrived, year arrived, religion, employment, and residence.

This is Australa's first census and only surviving historical census, it includes original images. What a fantastic resource for exploring your colonial ancestry.

Ancestry is available at all Yarra Plenty Regional Library branches.

Ireland census to come online

The National Archives of Ireland has arranged for the digitisation, indexing andcontextualisation of its most popular records, the census records for 1901 and 1911. The resulting website will contain images of the forms for each household and institution, which will be indexed by name (all names), townland/street, age and sex.

There will also be illustrated information on what life was like in Ireland in the early days of the last century. The site will be free to access, with no charge to use the indexes or view the images.

The first phase of the project, Dublin City and County 1911, is to be launched in Autumn 2007.
See: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/contactus/census.html

New on Ancestry Database

Recent databases added to the Ancestry database include:
Canadian Soldiers of World War I, 1914-1918
1871 Scotland Census
1891 Scotland Census

Ancestry is available at all branch libraries and can be accessed via our website at www.yprl.vic.gov.au

Go to the local history and family history link.