David O'Mahony: Genealogy research can be as rewarding as it is frustrating

Delving into Census 1926 could be profoundly rewarding for all of us

Minister for culture communications and sport Patrick O’Donovan and National Archives director Orlaith McBride at the launch of a comprehensive public programme of events ahead of the centenary release of data from the 1926 Census. Picture: Mark Stedman

By the time you read this — unless you’re one of those eager folks who checks the website from 1am, I see you — I will be poking through the treasure trove that is Census 1926.

With some 2.9m people recorded in it, surely I’ll find another skeleton in the family closet, right?