How To Search For Children Of The Same Parents In The Census

How do I search for children of the same parents?

When you find a census return, you'll find the head of household and usually a wife listed along side them and then you'll have a list of all the children that they've had. So, obviously, if you go from census return to census return you've got a ten year gap, so you should see those children aging ten years each time. Sometimes they don't quite match, you usually get one year out, but it's pretty good and once you've done that, you can find out the birth certificate for those children by going back into the civil registration indexes and ordering them up. A lot of people start to come forward in time, trying to work out the descendants of those siblings of the direct ancestor, and that's how people expand their modern family tree.