New census website

[CBGenealogy]

Have people seen there is a new census website as of yesterday?
There's a lot of teething problems.

Some of the main headlines:
Soundex at last!
Previous urls are dead links so anything you had saved no longer works and neither do the links on Ancestry/FindMyPast/MyHeritage, etc.

Search functionality not great at the moment but I'm sure it'll improve.

I've done a blog post with more details.
https://cbgenealogy.ie/irish-national-archives-has-a-new-site/

[aghadowey]

My old links are still working atm. If I click on a hyperlink I have already saved it takes me to the old-style layout. I'm not sure if they will continue to work.

My biggest problem with the site atm is the new links to the records. Here's an example-
Household of John Caskey in 1901 census (old link)-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Ballymena_and_Town_and_Urban_District_of_Ballymena/Hill_Street/926195/
New link (putting in only 1901 & John Caskey)-
https://nationalarchives.ie/collections/search-the-census/census-record/?census_year=1901&surname__icontains=Caskey&firstname__icontains=john&id=4478696
New link (putting in 1901, John Caskey, County Antrim, Presbyterian)-
https://nationalarchives.ie/collections/search-the-census/census-record/?census_year=1901&surname__icontains=caskey&firstname__icontains=john&county=Antrim&religion_updated=Presbyterian&id=4478696
Obviously the more filters now used the long a link will become.

[CBGenealogy]

Interestingly, they seem to have just reactivated all the old links in the last hour or so!

Agree the new links are very unwieldy. I stopped trying to update mine for the time being.

[aghadowey]

My old links still working. Have you tried clicking on the old one I posted to see if it works for you?

[Wexflyer]

I presume this is in preparation for the release of the 1926 census at the end of the year.

[Kiltaglassan]

Your old 1901 census link, aghadowey in reply #1 still works for me. 

[heywood]

Old style is still working - just on a general search.
I don’t like the new style but i suppose we will get used to it.

[Sinann]

You know how on the old one you could click on the name of the street or townland to get a list of all the surnames.
In the one aghadowey posted above you click on Hill street and get this
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Ballymena_and_Town_and_Urban_District_of_Ballymena/Hill_Street/
Can anyone see anything like that on the new one? I found it very handy.

[heywood]

I just eent on to the search page and entered the townland and county and got a list of everyone.

I prefer the neater one of old.