Now at last, it's your turn to carry out some research on the census records of your own. And I'm just going to go through a few notes to remind you what to look out for while you're doing your research and these notes, I've also included as a downloadable cheat sheet. So the first thing you need to make sure you're using the information that you already have from your family and the civil registration records and start with if you want to the 1939 register and then the 1911 sensors and work backwards. Now start with fairly wide search range without using the exact buttons. And then you can always narrow down your search criteria if necessary. When you find like entries, make sure that it matches to a large degree with the information you have from other sources.

There is always an acceptable margin of error. Sometimes it's difficult to tell, but you can always double check that by looking at a different census record, perhaps, or other records. And when you're looking at the actual census records, make sure that you note down things like the parish and the area and the exact exact address where this is given. If the street or the building still exists, then it's a really nice thing to do to look this up on maps or on street view, where you can actually see perhaps the building that you're where your ancestors lived, if it doesn't still exist, and you may still be able to find it on old maps. Now, as well as the Really important data like age, relationships, occupations and places of birth. Don't forget to note down some of the smaller details you find such as whether they were an employer or an employee.

Whether the house had only a few rooms, what age the children were at school perhaps and where they started work early, which was often the case in Victorian period. Also, don't ignore any visitors or borders and the householder was very, very normal for Victorian households to take in borders to add a bit of money, but sometimes these borders can turn out to be family and especially, and anybody described as a visitor can also turn out to be family. So do make a note of these as they may be useful later on. When you're trying to identify which family your ancestors came from. When you go back a generation in the senses, ie when you've been searching an answer, ancestor, and then you find them as a child with their parents, do remember to look at the parents census records for the later date. So you sort of need to find them.

Again, going forward. It's very important that for every ancestor you're researching, you look at every single possible census record that they would be in because you never know what clues there might be in that household particularly say, if a widowed parent came to stay, which can really help you identifying them later. Now, good luck with your searches. But if you do have any difficulties finding your ancestors or if you're unsure whether you've got the right ones. In my next lecture, I'm going to give you show you a few little tricks that you can try out for finding that elusive ancestor in the census records, have fun with your searches and I look forward to seeing you in the next video.