Jane Casey

So name, occupation, religion, age, that would have been obviously big, but also marital status and family structure as well.

And of course, then you've got your locations as well and you can search it quite easily through their website.

But what's interesting as well is that you can kind of get clues about kind of the housing conditions as well.

You know, I've done a lot of research on the 1911 census and the 1901 census, which came previously.

And you can kind of see how family units are made up.

A lot of the big Georgian houses, you might see that they have five or six family members and two or three servants.

as well.

You know, so it really paints a picture of what life would have been like 100 years ago.

So it's not even just about what information is right in front of you, but what clues you can get from that information as well.

Yeah, I was just thinking, you know, that mightn't be the best place to start.

You probably have to narrow it down a little bit more.

But essentially, yeah, that's it.

Really, that's it.

I mean, I would have, you know, kind of names of ancestors that I would have put in.

But I can imagine there's a lot of William Casey's as well, also in Ireland.

So what I do is I'll try and put in the townland if I can get specific about the townland or the town.

Everybody has some degree of interest in their family history, some more than others, of course.

Particularly in Ireland at the moment, there's a massive revival of Irish culture and a renewed interest in Irish culture and Irish history as well, which is what I do online.

I make short little history videos about Ireland and people like me and other creators have gained popularity through that, through this renewed interest.

And so I think people are interested in Irish history, but also where they came from.