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I'm with Chloe .... as to the comments about believing it, why not wait till someone who really knows comments.

So for those of you that believe this about the 1911 census later read that Elvis is still alive on a website, or the Earth will blow up tomorrow, you'd believe it. As Jools said, just because it has been mentioned doesnt mean it is true.

I'm a Taurus, and patience is not one of our virtues! I do hope that the page with my nana and her family on it survived! Would love to see her mother and father on a census with her (nana was born in 1908). And hopefully it might give a bit more info that just 'Germany' as place of birth! Wishful thinking.....

Chloe I guess that depends on whether you want it after the 100 year rule or once they've had the opportunity to do the best they can with it. Personally if that's going to make it more readable, a little bit longer would be worth it to me Lou

Well said Lou. Sara

So it WON'T be released to the public after the 100 year rule? Well, that's completely unfair, and perhaps against the law.... it has to be made public, doesn't it?

Jools, I agree with you and I didn't mean it was true, just that I had read articles covering similar points!!! And I can't see the point in people getting worked up about what state it will be in cos no-one will know until 2012 and what ever its condition, we'll have to cope with it as it comes Lou

The information I read came from Archive CD books, posted on the Devon FH site. I think it is pretty reliable.

While not questioning the source of Kaz's information or wishing to cause offence, I would ask you to consider the following:- Just because a lot of people have read the same thing, it does not automatically mean that thing is true. If it did, then everything we read in the newspapers would be true !!!

I hadn't read the actual article before but several points made in it have been being said for a long time

Unfortunately this is true...I've read it too!

1911 Census - some sobering facts ( i didnt write this....i found it!!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The 1911 census will not be released early. Period. 2. When it is released, there will be problems. HUGE problems. The 1911 census is not like ANY other census you will have seen! All the censuses that you have seen so far are the census enumerator's books. The enumerator went round every house collecting pieces of paper called householder's 'SCHEDULES', and then copied them into his book. With the very rare exception those 'schedules' are all gone. Not preserved. All that remain (from 1841 onwards to 1901, are the enumerator's books. Those books have several households per page. Often as many as 5 to 8 households. You've seen what they look like. *********************************************** * Take the following from someone who *knows* * *********************************************** Now... in the case of the 1911 census - it is TOTALLY DIFFERENT. There are *NO* census enumerator's books! All that remains are the householder's SCHEDULES. A double sided piece of paper for every household. Written in different handwriting by each head of household. That means that there are millions more pieces of paper involved than in the older censuses, and they are going to be a real proverbial pain to read. They still need sorting and classifying. __________________ And as if that wasn't bad enough.... Now for the bad news. They are VERY incomplete. MANY are missing. The ones that survive are: rotten and smelly (literally! - I mean it) screwed up and dog eared a great number are incredibly damaged parts of the pages missing, torn, ragged, water stained... literally rotten! People who work at The National Archives and have offices close to them know where they are... BY THE SMELL !!! They have never been microfilmed or digitised The cost of filming them will be about 10 times the cost of the original filming of the 1901 enumerator's books. Many, many, many millions of pounds. And when (if!) it is all completed and filmed... every genealogist will be complaining bitterly that they can't find their ancestors. And before you go blaming The National Archives for not preserving them in better condition. It is not their fault! That's how the bundles of paper came to them. (By the way, have you any idea how much space is taken up by those millions of rotten pieces of paper!) Will they be release before 2011 - not a cat in hell's chance folks! Will they be filmed in the near future? No way. If and when they are released, will you complain. Absolutely YES! Will it make any difference complaining - No. They are what they are. There you go. The facts of the matter. __________________