Genealogy Chat

is there any update or news on this? There is a possiblity we could still find living relatives if we could see this information now.

The 1921 census will not be released before 2022......if at all.

If your relatives are living, why should you need the 1921 census? If you want to know something.........ask them.

And there are other research tools which you can use..................

I am somewhat confused, for many years Guy has been the main person who has said that the chances of getting the 1921 census released early was not feasible.

And the link did not take me to any petition that I could find. Which I would not have signed anyway.

And as said before, the information on this census is stuff that can be easily found on other site.

IE Freebmd, for names of children

Since the thread is over three years old the petition referred to would have been completed.

Every petition I have seen about this topic usually only gets a few thousand votes, nowhere near the 100,000 needed for it to be considered.

Even if the petition had reached the required number of votes to trigger parliamentary debate, it was unlikely to have lead to anything.

The ruling by the Information Commissioner that resulted in the 1911 census being opened early does not apply to the 1921 census because, unlike the 1911 census, the 1921 census was conducted under the 1920 Census Act, which is still in force and which contains a statutory prohibition on disclosure.

The stated government position from the ONS is "its intention to release the entirety of the 1921 census returns in 2022, in accordance with the non-statutory '100 year rule' which was adopted to reflect this undertaking of confidentiality".