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Title: rootsuk.com
Post by: suttontrust on Friday 14 July 06 19:47 BST (UK)
Just found a new pay-per-view site, www.rootsuk.com and spent £5 looking up the 1841 census.  Very disappointing.  There seems to be a whole chunk of Yorkshire missing.  It only allows you to search for someone with 5 years either side of their age, and then gives you a list of possibles.  Checking each one costs units.  When you've found a possibility you then find (at least I found, in all but one case) that you can't find their family, even though you click on the button that's supposed to do this.  So I've got Samuel Brooks but no way of finding who he's living with.  I did find this facility in one case, so why not in the others?  Meanwhile you're racking up units.  Wouldn't recommend it.
Title: Re: rootsuk.com
Post by: meles on Friday 14 July 06 20:14 BST (UK)
I had a freebie from them and wasted all my points trying to find something in the same way as you did, suttontrust. Don't touch it, guys and girls.

meles
Title: Re: rootsuk.com
Post by: Mogsmum on Friday 13 October 06 09:30 BST (UK)
Ditto.  Not good - IMHO
Title: Re: rootsuk.com
Post by: Kevwood on Friday 13 October 06 09:37 BST (UK)
Doesn't sound good, but the reason you can only search within five years for age is thats because the ages in the 1841 were rounded up or down by five years when the census was taken. Also there are no relationships listed just other people at the same address.

Who are you hoping to find with Samuel Brooks, i will have a look for you.

Kev. ;D
Title: Re: rootsuk.com
Post by: suttontrust on Friday 13 October 06 11:56 BST (UK)
Thanks, Kev, I did find him eventually by other means.  The site is getting better, but it went live too early.
Title: Re: rootsuk.com
Post by: Cas (stallc) on Friday 13 October 06 12:02 BST (UK)
Thanks for the info.

Cas :)
Title: Re: rootsuk.com
Post by: kooky on Tuesday 02 September 08 22:56 BST (UK)
I had a look at this site. I found lots of CLULOs, but when I checked them they had nearly all been mistranscribed. I reported one that was clearly CLULEE on the image.
Not impressed. Found nothing new. Lost £5! :(
Kooky
Title: Re: rootsuk.com
Post by: MatthewJ on Tuesday 02 September 08 23:00 BST (UK)
Thanks for the warnings  :o
Title: Re: rootsuk.com
Post by: clulee on Friday 27 November 09 21:49 GMT (UK)
kooky why were you looking at clulees or was it clulos?
Title: Re: rootsuk.com
Post by: kooky on Saturday 28 November 09 09:17 GMT (UK)
I was looking at CLULOs. My mother was a Clulo and I have been researching the family for many years.
Kooky
Title: Re: rootsuk.com
Post by: Nick29 on Saturday 28 November 09 10:06 GMT (UK)
Don't forget that most public libraries have access to Ancestry, which you can use for free  :)