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100 years ago, women outnumbered men by almost 2 million in england and wales. so many young men had died in the first world war, many were unlikely to find husbands. the census forms, now made public, show a lot of these so called surplus women went to work instead. carefully restored, now digitised, the records give a unique and detailed picture of 8.5 million households. a treasure trove of information for people investigating the history of their homes and families. there s always the chance that you ll find out something that you didn t know. they might be doing a job, maybe temporarily, that you didn t previously know about. there might be people in the household that you didn t know about, a relative visiting that you weren t expecting. there ll be stuff that people are expecting to find, but there will also be, for some people, there are always going to be some surprises. many of those who filled out the census were war veterans. they d been promised homes for heroes, but mil ....

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