Free Census Records: Cambridgeshire

Trying to get free census records can be like trying to get hens' teeth!  There is a free website called FreeCEN that has volunteers transcribing the censuses and making them available online for free.  But it's a big task and is progressing very slowly.

FreeCEN is part of the FreeBMD and FreeREG group of websites, making genealogical information free online.

I've just checked for Cambridgeshire and it's not looking that good!

FreeCEN transcribe the censuses for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891.  At the time of writing, for Cambridgeshire it's looking like this:

	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891
Cambridgeshire	0%	0%	10.5%	0%	0%	26.5%

It can be very frustrating when you see a couple of counties that have 100% transcribed in all years as well as having extensive parish registers published for free!  Oh well, we can't help where our ancestors are to be found.

The 1881 Census is available for free on Findmypast and on Familysearch.org across the whole country at least.