About the Talk
The enumerators first went to work on the UK census in 1841 and have performed a vital role in each successive decennial census ever since then. It hasn’t always been an easy ride: confronted by hostile householders and at the mercy of the decisions made by the census authorities, their stories shed a fascinating light on one of the most important sets of records used by family historians today. Using original documents, contemporary newspaper reports and the census returns themselves, this talk will turn the spotlight onto the men and women who created the UK’s census returns.
About the Speaker
Popular speaker Dave Annal has a large repertoire of talks, covering a variety of family history-based topics. He has spoken at RootsTech, The Genealogy Show, Who Do You Think You Are Live? and other major Family History events and also given talks at The National Archives, London Metropolitan Archives, The Society of Genealogists and numerous Family History Societies around London and the South East.