How To Search For Your Ancestors Using The Census

How do I search for my ancestors?

First of all, in order to search for your ancestors, you need to compile your family tree as far back as 1901 or, indeed, even further, if you can do that, by ordering birth, marriage, and death certificates proving a link between one generation and the next. Once you've hit the 1901 boundary, you can then start to look for these people in the 1901 census, and then work back every ten or twenty years. Without that core information in 1901, you don't know for certain whether the people you've found in the census returns are actually related to you.