Hundreds of thousands of people took to the web this morning to hunt down ancestors and former occupants of their homes — or simply take a peek at other people’s lives almost a century ago — as the 1911 census records of more than 27 million people in England went online, three years earlier than planned. By lunchtime, the 1911census.co.uk website had seen 7.2m page views, with just under 700,000 separate searches made for people or house occupants, a spokeswoman for the National Archives said
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