The Original Domesday Book

Origin
The Domesday Book is a manuscript record of England and Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror. It was written in Medieval Latin, is highly abbreviated, and included some vernacular native terms without Latin equivalents. The survey's main purpose was to determine what taxes had been owed during the reign of King Edward the Confessor. Including in the documentations is a person's name, their holdings (land, properties, etc.), value (Money in currency form) and family (Number of offspring).

Effects
As originally designed to do it keeps track of the entire population of England and Wales during the 1000s. Unlike the normal book this one took its King's word seriously continuously updating for the last thousand plus years, removing someone who they passed away. Despite this continuous effect the size of the book never changes. It's a bigger book but it doesn't change in size even though millions of people have their information added.

Collection
It had been on display at The National Archives at Kew, London. Since 2011 the book was replaced with a copy by Warehouse Agents