This is an amazingly useful little book for it is mainly a guide to unpublished indexes to marriage records and census records in Great Britain and Ireland. For the most part they are privately compiled indexes, usually unknown or inaccessible to the researcher except through the pages of this book. But it is also a guide to the many recently published marriage and census indexes. ...
The original books of enumerators' returns for the censuses of 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, and 1891 for England, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man are at the Public Record Office in Kew. Those for Scotland are in the General Register Office of Scotland, in Edinburgh. Microfilm copies of selected portions of these six censuses are in libraries and record offices ...