What column(s) would you have on the census in your dreams?

[LizzieL]

Mine just lied about the number of years married - one year longer than age of oldest child. And more than one couple never actually married, in both cases one of them was already married to someone else.

[lisalucie]

A lovely photo right next to their names!

[gaffy]

"What column(s) would you have on the census in your dreams?"

Any column in any Ireland census return, from the first serious attempt in 1821 up to 1891. We've lost nearly everything, what a tragedy for Ireland and the diaspora across the globe...
 
And it doesn't get any more cheerful for Northern Irish genealogy. While the 1901 and 1911 Ireland census returns are widely available, the history of Irish partition and other circumstances mean that there will be no other information available on Northern Ireland people for years, and years, and years...

[mrs.tenacious]

Personally I'd plump for a 'Son/daughter of' column (I know they'd probably have baulked at it at the time but this is fantasy so anything goes!)

My favourite. But they would have to add where their parents were born, too.

[suey]

Personally I'd plump for a 'Son/daughter of' column (I know they'd probably have baulked at it at the time but this is fantasy so anything goes!)

Now that would be useful, with a hefty fine if they told a "porkie pie"    Lots of mine gave pob as the parish they were living in and not the one they were born in

Not sure how the genuine not knowns would reply though

My favourite. But they would have to add where their parents were born, too.

[trish58]

Date & place of marriage. (As shown on Scottish birth records) Would make life a whole lot easier.

Trish

[ThrelfallYorky]

YEs, I agree - names and birthplaces of parents, number of siblings, religion and place / date of marriage, legible writing, and a declaration on a stack of Bibles / other Holy Books that all the information given was correct - oh, and yes, can we have a magical discovery of all the Irish census results - oh, and perhaps somehow "discover a census about 1810 ( that'd possibly solve one of my problems) ... as well as a load of pre-reformation BMD details etc.
Oh, we don't want much, do we? But if we had it all so easily, then .... what would we all find to do??

[Desert Girl]

All of the above
PLUS the relaxation of the "100 yr rule" of closure....I SOOOOoooo need to see the 1921 census in order to break down a massive brickwall.
That's all 

[ThrelfallYorky]

Yes. That'd be rather handy. Forgot that. We don't want a lot, do we? - Just EVERYTHING!