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Tips for searching census records
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Suzanne | Report | 4 Apr 2006 17:10 |
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For those of you who like to search for yourself here are some tips: (See below) |
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Suzanne | Report | 4 Apr 2006 17:13 |
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Please anyone add your suggestions: If you dont like help then suggestions: Welsh/ Scottish census? (you'd be surprised!) In workhouse or prison transcribed by just initials? Use lots of wildcards (? to replace a single letter) (* to replace lots of letters) enter as little info as you can and look for possible mistranscriptions i.e. just first name, birth year +/- a few years and birth place or different combinations of data. |
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LindaG | Report | 4 Apr 2006 17:18 |
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Be imaginative in your mis-spellings. It is amazing how many ways a name can be spelled by census enumerators! Remember many people were illiterate in days gone by and couldn't correct what was being written down. Don't assume the first letter has been transcribed correctly. I've got Garratt, Garrott, Garrett, Garrat, Garut, and Parratt and Carratt (mistranscriptions!) Lx |
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Andrea | Report | 4 Apr 2006 17:21 |
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If you can't find someone on a census,but know where a member of their family or future spouse is, put just their first name,or first 3 letters and *,then choose the right census year, then put in the piece number of the family member/spouse. If you don't have any luck,try again with the previous and next piece numbers. |
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Rebecca | Report | 4 Apr 2006 18:32 |
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sorry for the dumb question but im only a young 'un and can only remember one census being done.... How often is the Census done? |
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Dizzy Lizzy 205090 | Report | 4 Apr 2006 18:46 |
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Censuses have been completed every ten years since 1801. They are only of use to genealogists from 1841 however, as prior to that they were just a head count. We can only access censuses to 1901 at present due to the 100 year disclosure rule. 1911 will be made public in 2012. Liz |
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Rebecca | Report | 4 Apr 2006 18:49 |
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Thank you Liz :) |
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Christine in Herts | Report | 4 Apr 2006 19:07 |
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Have you found your folks in one census? - then see if you can find the neighbours from that census in the census where you're searching but can't find your folks - they may be next door, mistranscribed. You could see if they've been given the neighbour's surname (by enumerator or transcriber!) See if the name's been entered back-to-front: surname in first-name box & vv Try to imagine the name pronounced in the regional accent & write how that sounds. Desperation - trawl the images for where you think they were living at the time. Christine |
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Merry | Report | 4 Apr 2006 19:21 |
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If your ancestor can't quite decide where he was born but you know the reg district, try typing the reg district name in the Keywords box.......it doesn't always work, but if they have stated a place of birth (and spelled it correctly LOL) which is a valid place within the district it may well show up......... Merry |
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