Irish Family Footsteps

Attending the "Exploring the 1926 Census" Conference :: Irish Family Footsteps Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending the "Exploring the 1926 Census" Conference in Dublin Castle.

The day has finally come! The 1926 census is available on the National Archives of Ireland website. I have spent a very exciting morning looking for my relatives and finding all sorts of interesting things I never knew - such as that my grandfather Francis Doble (only ever a farmer to me) trained as an engineer. It explains why both he and my father knew so much about machinery.
Afterwards, I spent time looking at everything with my 22 year old son and found it very emotional to look at these records with him and tell him all about the people who were part of my life but long gone now. I didn't quite expect it would affect me so much but it did. I image there will some tears shed around the country today.

Only a few hours now until the release of the 1926 census. I've spent the evening going through everyone in my family tree who was alive in 1926 to see who I have questions about!
I can't wait to see it!

I am re-launching my Irish Family Footsteps website today. www.irishfamilyfootsteps.ie . Please do log in to give it a bit of traction with google and give my post a like! Thank you very much friends!

We are all counting down the days to the release of the 1926 census. Here are some very useful pointers from Accredited Genealogists Ireland to prepare!