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    Oct 20, 2020 3 minutes

    A GUIDE TO TRACING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY USING THE CENSUS

     Emma Jolly

    Pen & Sword, 197 pages, £14.99

    Emma Jolly’s guide to the census was first published in 2013. This second edition is fully updated to include the rapidly increasing number of online resources for using these vital records.

    ‘Scotland and Ireland are covered as well as England and Wales’

    The first two chapters cover the history of the census, including early census substitutes, the

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