How can i find ancestors after 1901?

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How can i find ancestors after 1901?

How can i find out what happened to my great grandfathers siblings after 1901 as the census stops then.

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6 days ago
some of these answers show how sad some people are on here. I mean browsing around the history questions to try and be funny - how boring are their lives
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some of these answers show how sad some people are on here. I mean browsing around the history questions to try and be funny - how boring are their lives
When will americans learn only Brits can do sarcasm. Try Births deaths and marriages on ancestory.co.uk
Good luck you need it Is that AM or PM.
Eric C doesn`t know my clock came from Ikea. you might need a shovel to dig them up! i dont know what you mean by it stops but the census is every 10 years so one was taken in 1900, the next one was 1910 at least it was here in america.
i think in great britain the census was a little different by one year meaning 1891 then 1901 then 1911 so to find siblings you usually look for the boys since their last name doesnt change and if he had sisters well it would help to know who they married. hope this helps ELEPHANTSTEW - clearly pm or it would be 0701... duh!

lol With difficulty, if you're trying to work forwards from 1901. If you haven't done so already, I would suggest working backwards TO 1901, using any information you can glean from living relatives.
Otherwise you may have to wait until the 1911 census is released in 2011. Why bother, they are probably hiding skeletons that they had put to rest. Leave the poor fucccccers alone Ever heard of the internet and all the advice you get on how to hunt these poor innocents down. Are you hoping maybe they have money and influence, cos it sounds as if you have no life bringing up the dead. RIP I say. It is difficult, but if you have your details from the 1901 census, you can view the Birth indexes and get information that way.

I have had to do a similar thing.

It is a lot of hard work, and involves looking at all the Birth indexes for every year for the surname that you know. You then need to see if the district listed is the same, or one that you are aware of. It can be said that the whole thing is a guessing game.

As a rule of thumb, births were generally within a year of marriage for most in the early 1900's, then every other year(ish).

After finding those details, finding marriage info is a little more tricky. My relatives moved down the coast from where they originated, but looking into things, cross checking maiden name's etc gave me a lot to go on.

You must bear in mind that some of the people that you may find are actually still alive and might not want to have anything to do with your family, or don't even know that your side of the family exist. Tread with care as you don't want to upset or offend anybody. It might be worthwhile trying local newspapers, if you know roughly where your relatives lived. They usually carry birth, marriage and death announcements as well as relevant news stories. I found out lots about my father's family in the 1930's and 40's that way.

I'm not sure where you're based, but the British Newspaper Library in Colindale, North London has collections of local newspapers for most places in Britain, and I expect other countries have similar institutions. Local libraries and the newspapers themselves usually have hard copies and sometimes online collections of back issues of the local rag. It is possible to obtain information from a Census which hasn't been released under the 100-year old rule, but it will cost you and is usually only allowed in special circumstances, such as needing to find a genetic link due to disease, inheritance dispute, etc.
What you could try is to send a letter to the newspaper local to the area in which your Aunts/Uncles lived, give details about their names and locality, and ask if you have any cousins still living in the same area. Address yur letter to "The Readers' Letters Column"
Find the newspaper by asking Google. For example if I wanted to this for Bristol, I would ask: "Bristol newspaper" and up would come "Bristol Evening Post" with all contact details.
The next possibility - if you are in the area in which they were born, but you don't know their names, go to the local Register Office and talk to the Superintendent Registrar (avoid a Monday which is very busy registering weekend events).
You know the date Gt. grand-dad was born - there was no real birth control in 1901 - so allow 2 yearly gaps to look for registered births to the same parents (your 2x Gt. grandparents).
If you have names you can advertise on Friends Reunited or Lost Cousins sites.
Whatever people say, genealogy is about the spread of still living distant relatives.
Next possibility - the Local County Family History Society. Again - Bristol and Avon FHS has a web site (as probably all of them do). I can call up that and there is a place to click labelled "Members' Interests". I can call up all the names being researched in the Bristol and Avon area - some of them are even mine!
Next possibility (!) - getting tiring aren't I?! Someone else may have put details of your relatives on their own Tree on the web. There is a guy in the Bristol FHS who has a Tree on line called "Boddy Parts". It is a tree of the Boddy Family of Devon and Bristol from about 1500 to date. Enter your family name - "Bloggs Family Tree" and see if anything comes up.
Happy Hunting.... VA In UK the next census will not be available until 2011. Thats because Britain has a 100 year rule.

But it's also because in the 1911 census, there is a statement on the census paper that says "all information will be kept confidential".

This has now been interpreted as none of the information should be released to the public at all. So the argument is currently whether or not to even release the 1911 census in 2011 when the 100 years is up.

Although many people have been asking to get early access.

There is one other way to get info post 1901, and that is to check out the county directories. They were produced up to about1920. They list businesses and some prominent names.

http://www.historicaldirectories.org/... Well, if you're young (lol) you can wait for the 1911 census which should be available online in 2009. before that you can pay ￡45.00 for information on a specific address.

Other than that you can check out the GRO index for Births marriages and deaths. either on ancestry or find my past. Free BMD might be worth checking from time to time, although they haven't transcribed much for these years as yet.

You can check telephone directories on ancestry too.

The best thing to do is to track down as many relatives as you can and aske them. Good Luck If you have a address then I belive that you can access the 1911 census, try the national archives web site the link is below. other than that it's going to be family story's and maybe certificates of Birth, Deaths and Marriages,

good luck and good hunting I have done it by using the births , marraiges and deaths indexes at findmypast.com (though only a couple as it gets a bit expensive.
Alternatively if you have enough info to 'bridge the gap' until the 1920's then you might be able to find info in electoral registers for the area they lived in - but obviously only for those over 21.