David commented:
> It strikes me that if 20,000,000 people have accessed the 1901
> CENSUS site this means that some 30% of the population of
> the United Kingdom are trying to trace their ancestors. Given the
> numbers of mums, dads, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and
> cousins, this must mean that the entire population of the country
> will, in the next week or so, know exactly where their ancestors
> were on census day 1901 and also what they were doing and who they
> were living with.
>
> If this is so then surely the web site will soon become redundant!!!
>
20 million may have tried to log on, many several times, but 95% won't have
managed to get through. So probably only 3 0r 4 million distinct
individuals tried. They came from many parts of the world, particularly the
US, Canada, S Africa, Australia, NZ, which have combined populations with
English ancestors of well over 100 million. So the number of UK people
attempting to log on was probably of the order of 1 million, still a
sizeable number.
Ian
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