Paper trail to the past

.."Almost the entire 1911 census goes online for public access on Tuesday. Rob Liddle looks at what we can hope to find out from it and how organisers hope to avoid a repeat of the deluge that shut the 1901 census website last time"..

.."One householder completed his form with the words: "Would you like to know what our income is, what each had for breakfast and how long we expect to live on anything else?"..

."Elsewhere, the humour of the British public is apparent. A mother of five children lists her occupation as "slave to family", and a man claims his is "anything, nothing special". In another household the family cat is listed as a servant whose nationality is "Persian"..