Hello,
Have you ever thought of the benefit of the U.K. Census data being centrally available on ONE database, and being able to trace your ancestors from 1841 to 1891?

The FreeCEN project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns. It is part of FreeUKGEN, an initiative aimed at helping make high quality primary (or near-primary) records of relevance to UK genealogy conveniently and freely available online.

If you have benefited from information collected from others, here is your chance to “give back”. All you need is a computer with CD reader and some time. CDs and all software are supplied and support is always available. Many volunteers world-wide are working on the transcription.

Visit my web site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~banff1841

The FreeCEN search engine is now fully operational at http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

(Other projects associated with the FreeUKGEN initiative are FreeBMD and FreeREG).