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Census website stays offline

At least for another week or two...

By Ian Jones

Published: 16 January 2002 11:15 GMT

The 1901 census web site looks set to stay offline for up to two more weeks due to unprecedented demand from insatiable family history hunters.

The Public Records Office (PRO) has admitted its servers need more work to prepare it for the relentless attentions of genealogists. In the first two days of its operation, the site was getting one million users per hour.

The surging popularity of tracing family history, along with media coverage of the release of the 1901 census, fuelled demand for the searchable archive beyond the PRO's ability to cope.

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