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Re: Census 2021
« Reply #45 on: Friday 12 March 21 21:45 GMT (UK) »

I may get drunk and sleep in a field on census night so family in 100 years time will be asking on social media "Can anyone find this man on the 2021 census?"

As long as you won't be breaking whatever coronavirus restrictions are then in force wherever you live!

I was clearly joking when I said that, as I think one of my ancestors may have missed the 1881 census but not on purpose. Hopefully lockdowns soon will be a thing of the past.

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Re: Census 2021
« Reply #46 on: Saturday 13 March 21 01:59 GMT (UK) »
I've entered mine online and unless I've not seen the question, it doesn't ask where I was born  ???
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: Census 2021
« Reply #47 on: Saturday 13 March 21 08:14 GMT (UK) »
I've entered mine online and unless I've not seen the question, it doesn't ask where I was born  ???

I have not yet looked at the form but I understand it does not ask for the place, just the country.

ONS help has this
This question is about location, not nationality
Your country of birth may not be related to your nationality. For example, someone born in Germany where their family were serving in the armed forces would answer "Germany" for this question, but might answer "British" for the question about national identity.
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Re: Census 2021
« Reply #48 on: Saturday 13 March 21 16:11 GMT (UK) »
Decided to fill form in on-line -

Being an out and proud Taff clicked on 'Cymraeg' - hoped to complete the form in Welsh (according to my grandfather the language of heaven!)

Welsh words of welcome - but as soon as I filled in first line of address everything reverted to English.

Duly completed form and at the end Welsh words of thanks.

Should have said I live 100 miles EAST of Offa's Dyke (deepest Yorkshire) 

If English folk living in Wales can complete their form in English why can't the Taffs living in England fill their form in Welsh ?


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Re: Census 2021
« Reply #49 on: Sunday 14 March 21 00:39 GMT (UK) »
I've entered mine online and unless I've not seen the question, it doesn't ask where I was born  ???

I have not yet looked at the form but I understand it does not ask for the place, just the country.

ONS help has this
This question is about location, not nationality
Your country of birth may not be related to your nationality. For example, someone born in Germany where their family were serving in the armed forces would answer "Germany" for this question, but might answer "British" for the question about national identity.


That won't help any descendant in a hundred year's time when they're hoping to discover where the ancestor was born.  It's as bad as trying to find current census entries of; "born in Ireland"
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: Census 2021
« Reply #50 on: Sunday 14 March 21 02:49 GMT (UK) »
I was born in India, and my nationality at that time would have been British.

My nationality now is Australian. How would the ONS deal with that?

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« Reply #51 on: Sunday 14 March 21 09:25 GMT (UK) »
I was born in India, and my nationality at that time would have been British.

My nationality now is Australian. How would the ONS deal with that?

Just as you say. They've dealt with far more complex data.

Rena - the census is not for us to find answers. It's for national planning, social statistics, etc.
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Re: Census 2021
« Reply #52 on: Sunday 14 March 21 12:11 GMT (UK) »


Rena - the census is not for us to find answers. It's for national planning, social statistics, etc.

i think a lot of people forget that the census has nothing to do with genealogy. We are lucky in the UK that our censuses have survived and are available to us. I believe a lot of counties destroyed them as soon as they extracted the information they needed.
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Re: Census 2021
« Reply #53 on: Sunday 14 March 21 14:21 GMT (UK) »
I am currently completing my form online but need to ask:

if someone hasnt used/had a passport since the 80s/90s do I tick :

United Kingdom or
None

(include passports and travel documents that have expired, if they are entitled to renew them)

I'm thinking United Kingdom?