tiredemma
I did mine about 18 months ago when i cut my hand, it got infected, i was signed off work and the most comfortable positon for my hand to be was resting on the mouse of my computer...
and i was stuck at home by myself for a few days.
Was lucky enough to know a fair bit about all my great grandparenst (and even a few bits about my great great grandparenst) that my grnadparenst had told me, so i joined ancestry... (they have a months free trial) and started searching from there.
Basically looking for people (knowing roughly where they lived and wear they were born).... and went from there... finding them as children in a family.... then searching for their parents... who were then chidlren with their parents etc...
BUT be warned... obviously all the census are handwritten, and people have spent hours transcribing them.... BUT due to the handwriting it can be really difficult for them to transcribe accuratley... and you may be searching for a name and never find it... cause its been transcribed wrong. (but when you look at the orignal you can see why the transcriber thought it was corrrect etc
also people seem to have no idea when they were born, as they may be aged 3 in 1 census, 10 years later they become 15 and 10 years later become 26 etc
also peoples names seem to change, for example one of my ancestors was named William as a child, but Bill as an adult.... also the place born can vary a bit..... from the name of the hamlet in one census to the name of the nearest village the next etc. Another of my ancestor had mary as ehr middle name... but it became the name she was called by the time she was an adult
so i often found myself searching for the siblings when i couldnt find my ancestors, cause then on the cencus next to my G G G aunt or whatever would be my G G grandmother but clearly her name had been transcribed wrong... if that makes sense?
It can be tricky but really satisfying when you work something out!