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Census reports 1851 1861 and 1891

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Ozibird

Ozibird Report 12 Oct 2010 21:05

Wendy, you have hijacked somebody else's thread. You need to start your own.

You can't get access to any census after 1911 because of the 100 year privacy rules on census material.

You need to go to old telephone books, electoral rolls and newspapers.


Ozi

Linda

Linda Report 13 Oct 2010 14:23

Hi Could someone please enlighten me as to what is a FMP subscription. As I am also trying to find ancestors through the census I thought the suggestion of just putting in the forename was a good idea - but the census search stipulates that it requires a surname. Is there another way that I do not know of? Sorry fairly new at this.
Regards
Linda

Madmeg

Madmeg Report 13 Oct 2010 14:41

FMP is Find My Past - some people prefer it to Ancestry, or even use both. You can't search on GR without a surname, but you can on Ancestry.

If you are new to this, you've probably got a lot of work to do, and a subscription to Ancestry is probably going to be very useful to you. You can get a free trial for 14 days to see what it does, and if in the UK many local libraries have free access to it.

Linda

Linda Report 14 Oct 2010 13:32

Thank you kindly Madmeg for your help.

David

David Report 17 Oct 2010 22:34

Hi Wendy,
You have got your details mixed up onto my thread.
Dave