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Census Lookups General Lookups => Census and Resource Discussion => Topic started by: HJC2013 on Thursday 19 September 13 15:34 BST (UK)
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Hello!
I am looking for a huge favour. I am a post-graduate student currently writing my dissertation
on the census.
Primarily, I am looking to discuss the experiences of individuals who used the census before the introduction of mass digitalisation and online transcriptions on websites such as FindMyPast, etc, in order to discuss the differences newer technologies have made to genealogy research.
It does not matter if your initial experience was many years ago, or if you only briefly began searching before giving up, all experiences would be very helpful.
If you would not mind discussing your experiences with me, please respond to this topic or send me a private message.
This is just an initial post to gauge interest, but I promise that the actual research (probably a quick online interview/questionnaire) will be very short, and will take only a few minutes of your time, but will be invaluable to my research!
Thank you for your time!
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Just to say you will need to make one more post before members can send you a pm!
Good luck with your research.
I'm a post transcription online researcher so can't help you myself.
Josey.
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As far as the Scottish census records went, you visited the Records in Edinburgh, filled out a slip giving the year and parish, then the original books were brought to you to look through.
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Personally, I spent an awful lot of hours at Bristol Central Reference Library!
Lots of microfiche; lots of microfilm ::)
I also used the LDS Church. Visited their churches in Bristol and Isle of Man.
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I spent hours in libraries trawling through microfilms. You needed good eyesight and a lot of patience!