All Welsh counties now released
We are pleased to announce that all counties in Wales are now available on the site, a total of over 2.4 million individuals and over a million households.
As the 1911 census is the first where household schedules were preserved, you will find that some of the census returns are printed in, and completed in, Welsh rather than English - these amount to about 13% of the total schedules for Wales. To help those of you who are not native Welsh speakers but have Welsh ancestors, we have added a new section to the 1911 website which explains the Welsh returns and also provides translation tables to help you interpret your ancestors’ documents.
Our profound thanks to Geoff Riggs and the members of the Association of Family History Societies of Wales who have developed and made this information available - we are very grateful for your time and effort, and are sure that users of the site will appreciate your contribution hugely.
Tags: counties, cymru, translation, wales, welsh
June 9th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Have you jumped the gun?. The 1911 website still shows the Welsh counties as unavailable.
June 9th, 2009 at 7:34 am
@Larry - it is likely that your computer is being lazy and showing you an old (”cached”) version of the page.
To make it buck its ideas up, go the the search page, then hit the “CTRL” and “F5″ keys on your computer at the same time. This will force your computer to load a fresh version of the page and hey presto: Croeso i Gymru!
June 9th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Let me be the first to say Thank-you
I found my Ancestor in Glamorganshire.
June 9th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I found my English relatives who had settled in Monmouthshire within minutes.
Thanks for getting this all rolled out ahead of schedule
June 10th, 2009 at 1:32 am
@iantester
A big Thank You to everyone I finally broke a brick wall!
June 10th, 2009 at 5:52 am
I discovered this by word of mouth on facebook. I haven’t received anything official as I did subscribe to info by email but passed the info on myself on the Carmarthenshire Family History website and I know that others have done likewise.
Anyway, I am now able to search for my Welsh family so a big thank you for all the good work.
June 11th, 2009 at 2:02 am
This is great news. An excellent search facility. Found all my ancestors in one go so a big thank you. Any news on when the original enumerators books will be made available on the website?
June 11th, 2009 at 11:58 am
That is brilliant, but can you please give an update as to the status of a subscription service rather than a pay to view service.
Thanks
Brian
June 11th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I have done a search for my grandfather in Glais Swansea, I know he was there, but no records were found, or any other members of his family?
June 11th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
OK, that’s Wales out of the way, although of no interest to me, I’m afraid. I’m waiting for Channel Islands and RN ships at sea. Do you have a timeframe for them ?
June 15th, 2009 at 2:12 am
@Francis - these datasets should be available before the end of June.
June 15th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Thank you for the release of the Welsh 1911 census. I have finally been able to trace my great uncle Sid, who was listed as George Sidney Trow, but whose birth was registered as just George Trow. If it wasn’t for the 1911 census, then I would not have been able to find him.
June 16th, 2009 at 4:24 am
@Bob - delighted to hear your news: it is always great to hear that a brick wall has been overcome!
June 20th, 2009 at 1:14 am
A big thanks to those who provided the translation tables
July 5th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
How can I find the Pontypridd workhouse on the census? The search requires a streetname and I have tried all the roads around the site but no luck.
Thanks
December 16th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
The 1911 census has been a fantastic aid to opening up more of my family history. The fact that you get to see you ancestors own writing is amazing. Out of interest, will the block of the far right column be removed at any point?