Copy Your 2011 Census Form

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The 2011 Census of Population of Ireland is due to take place next Sunday night, April 10, 2011.

The following useful advice is being circulated by the Clare Roots Society:

Don't forget that the information which you record on this year's Census form will not be released to genealogical researchers for 100 years - i.e. until the year 2111. Your future descendants may be as impatient then as today's researchers are impatient now to see the returns of the 1921 census (which never took place due to the War of Independence) or those of the 1926 census (which the new Irish government has promised to release during its term of office).

We strongly advise you all to keep a photocopy of your own 2011 Census form for family archival purposes.

This may be a suitable place to remind anyone with relatives in Scotland that the 1911 Census of Scotland is due to be released tomorrow, Tuesday, April 5, 2011:
see http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Conte ... r=546&2066