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Sunday, March 3, 2019

Findmypast Announces Project to Digitize and Publish the 1921 Census of England & Wales

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/1921-census
You can be sure that with all my English and Wales, I will be watching and publishing about the upcoming release of the 1921 England and Wales that will take place in January 2022. Here is a quote from the first announcement of this monumental event.
In the most anticipated family history development since the online publication of the 1939 Register, Findmypast has been selected as The National Archives’ commercial partner to make the 1921 Census of England & Wales available online. 
The census, which was the first to be conducted following the introduction of the Census Act of 1920, will be published online by Findmypast in January 2022.
Here is a description of the Project from an email notice I received.
The project will see Findmypast capture digital images and transcribe the records in a way that will enable family historians across the globe to conduct meaningful searches of these important records when they are opened for the very first time. 
Taken on 19th June 1921, the census consists of more than 28,000 bound volumes of original household returns containing detailed information on close to 38 million individuals. 
It provides greater detail than any previous census as, in addition to the questions asked in 1911, the 1921 returns also asked householders to reveal their place of employment, the industry they worked in and the materials they worked with as well as their employer’s name. Those aged 15 and older were required to provide information about their marital status, including if divorced, while for those under 15 the census recorded whether both parents were alive or if either or both had died. 
The 1921 Census also included detailed questions on education, and was the first in which individual householders could submit separate confidential returns.

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