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The day has finally come! The 1926 census is available on the National Archives of Ireland website. I have spent a very exciting morning looking for my relatives and finding all sorts of interesting things I never knew - such as that my grandfather Francis Doble (only ever a farmer to me) trained as an engineer. It explains why both...

This photo was my granny, Sophie. She will be one of the first people I will look for when the 1926 census of Ireland goes live.... I am counting down with excitement... Just 12 days to go now.