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| Author: | Mel [ Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | 1911 |
It seems a little closer now I have seen this. I'm getting excited! Can't wait!!! http://www.1911census.co.uk/ Welcome - register for the official 1911 Census The 1911 census service will be launching soon and when it is available you will be able to search over 36 million records of people living in England and Wales in 1911. |
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| Author: | Julie in Norfolk [ Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
Yup, there is a lot that I am waiting for. I must make a list... |
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| Author: | Julie in Norfolk [ Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
 Ooooh I am exasperated. I registered. My name is easy, as is my email address and my post code. The country I live in was far more difficult. E for England, no. U for United Kingdon, no. G for Great Britain, no. Then scrolling right up the top I found that it was GB for United Kingdom. Is it just me?
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| Author: | Burnleymasher [ Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
There is'nt a smilie for what I feel, I am sooooooo excited. Stephanie. |
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| Author: | Jill on the A272 [ Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
Time to start feeding the piggy bank so I can afford it. |
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| Author: | Mel [ Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
I bet they do London and the south first. Staffordshire and Lancashire (my two main counties of interest) will come very last of course, just before the full release on 3rd January 2012. |
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| Author: | Gloria [ Sat Nov 08, 2008 2:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
Wicked, I have registered. |
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| Author: | Mel [ Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
I wonder if they had the sense to begin the process as soon as permission was granted for a 2009 partial release? |
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| Author: | Julie in Norfolk [ Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
Sorry, in my irritation about the GB for United Kingdom, I forgot to say yippeeeeee! |
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| Author: | Mel [ Sun Nov 09, 2008 10:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
"This will be a pay-per-view site, and customers who are already registered on findmypast.com will be able to enter their username and password and use any findmypast units across both sites. This means you’ll be able to view records from each census from 1841 to 1911*, plus many more essential family history records, by purchasing just a single package of units. " This was taken from the Findmypast website. I don't currently have any units with them but it certainly seems more worthwhile once the 1911 is launched. I wonder if they will increase the unit price? Also of interest - "As with previous censuses the 1911 census shows the name, age, sex, and marital status of each person, as well as detailing their occupation and birthplace. But for the first time ever the following information is also included: Details of nationality Duration of current marriage How many children have been born to that marriage – including children no longer living at home and those who died before 1911 Details of the precise branch of a profession or trade an individual worked in. For instance, whether a carpenter worked in a colliery, a ship works, or was a house carpenter and joiner Household schedules have survived so we can see our ancestors' own handwriting, complete with any unsolicited additional comments they might have made 1911 is the first ever UK census to be scanned in colour, meaning sharper, more faithful images " |
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| Author: | Mel [ Sun Nov 09, 2008 10:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
Work is underway  The latest 1911 census project news November update 05/11/2008 It's been a busy couple of months for the 1911 census scanning team. September and October discoveries have included: Four professional footballers - Rochdale and Crystal Palace players among them. A comment from an enumerator asserting that seven child household members are the illegitimate offspring of the housekeeper. A man who lists his occupation as 'inventor and model maker'. Yet more suffragettes. September update 11/09/2008 During scanning in the month of August we found: The household of Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, the second Duke of Westminster - he's living with his daughter, Lady Ursula Grosvenor, and 18 servants. Grosvenor competed for Great Britain in the 1908 London Olympics as a motorboat racer. He was also noted for his support of various right-wing causes, and his romantic pursuit of French fashion designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel. He died in 1953, aged 74. The return for one household lists the family cat as a domestic servant, giving the feline's nationality as 'Persian'. We hope the enumerator appreciated the joke. One householder, apparently objecting to the intrusive nature of the census, writes on the return: 'Would you like to know what our income is, what each had for breakfast and how long we expect to live on anything else?' August update 22/08/2008 With the passing of another month comes a host of new discoveries made by our scanning team. These include: A number of doodles on census returns, including a sketch of a figure in a bowler hat, and a man in a high-buttoned military style jacket. A rather unusual entry, which reads 'tramp - slept out in backyard'. A man who lists his occupation as '(anything) nothing special', suggesting the understated British sense of humour was very much alive in 1911. George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry, a Conservative politician who was involved in horseracing. He is living with his wife, son, and an incredible 16 servants. July update 25/07/2008 Our transcription and image scanning projects continue apace. Interesting discoveries for June include: Lord Mountbatten, listed as Prince Louis of Battenberg. Musician and composer John Greenwood. A head of household and eldest son whose first names were ‘Redemption’. Lots more suffragette protestors. June update 13/06/2008 Our scanning project continues apace in readiness for the 2009 launch. The quality of the books has generally been very good, with little remedial work needed. The month of May has yielded a plethora of interesting discoveries: We've found author John Masefield, who served as Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967. His most famous works are probably his classic children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, along with his large array of poetry. The Women's Freedom League, a suffragette organisation, arranged a boycott of the 1911 census. We've already found three apparent sympathisers. One of them, who left the census return otherwise blank, has written: ‘No vote – no census. In view of restrictive legislation… I refuse to give details of my household asked for in this document'. Another - who has partially completed the form – declares: 'If I am intelligent enough to fill in this paper, I am intelligent enough to put a cross on a voting paper.' She also lists '6 females - addresses and names unknown' who, we can guess, were fellow suffragettes. Many attended all-night parties or stayed with friends to avoid participation. We uncovered an enumerator (or possibly a householder) with a penchant for doodling and an apparent taste for the east – on two separate pages are ink drawings of what appears to be an oriental woman; one of them directly above a household. We've found a disparaging comment made by the head of a household about a woman in his service. Scrawled on the bottom of the census return is: 'This woman calls herself "about forty" and refuses to say more. She looks 60. She leaves my service tomorrow.' Other finds include: an Earl and Countess, a (presumably) unnamed child listed simply as 'baby', a vocalist with a laryngologist husband, and a man whose occupation is recorded as 'dealer in Christmas cards of fancy stationary & fancy goods commercial traveller 7 months of the year selling the above goods'. May update 01/05/2008 As another month passes the digitisation project for the 1911 census is progressing well. Our team of experts is working round-the-clock in preparation for the first data release. Some interesting discoveries from the past month are: RG14 piece sequences from the areas of Hemel Hempstead, Amersham, and Eton contained significant numbers of books that were in poor condition. Hemel Hempstead in particular contained books with pages showing signs of extensive damage and needed repair and treatment by the Conservation Care team at The National Archives. One particular piece in Suffolk contained some strikingly ornate calligraphy. We found two Cambridgeshire residents whose occupations, today, might seem a little unusual. One of the men was a 'mole killer' and the other a 'mole catcher'. RG78 series complete 12/12/2007 Scotland Online is delighted to announce that the scanning of the RG78 series - Enumerators’ Summary Books - is now complete. Some 570,000 images have been produced. Transcription of these images is now well underway and due for completion by the end of Dec 2007. |
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| Author: | Burnleymasher [ Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
Cant wait for a look, sounds like there were some real comedians about in that time.  Stephanie. |
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| Author: | portia [ Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
Pardon me if I'm being thick, but does it mean Ancestry won't have it? |
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| Author: | Gloria [ Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
Oh Maureen, please don't tell me Ancestry won't have it, I have a sub to them. |
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| Author: | Burnleymasher [ Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1911 |
I have left some feedback on Ancestry saying that it would be appreciated if they let members know about the 1911 census. Dont know if they will do anything or not on their web site, just have to wait and see. Stephanie. |
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