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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: jillyg on Saturday 18 January 20 04:36 GMT (UK)
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Can I search a property to see who lived there on census night
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On FindMyPast you can search by address
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TheGenealogist has a very good address search. Which site(s) do you have access to?
Carol
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I have ancestry, and have just downloaded find my past, but am not sure how to access the information
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Go to the census record that you wish to look at on Find My Past.
You will then see the boxes to fill in with names etc. At the top on the left are the words Search For. You then have the choice of Person or Address. Click on the word Address. The page then asks you for Street, Parish or Town, and County. Fill those in and click blue search bar underneath.
It will then take you to a list of the streets/roads. You may have to make a choice from the list depending on how many appear.
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Isn't FindMyPast address search only available for the 1939 register? Not the other census years?
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FindMyPast's address search is available for all census as well as the 1939 register
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It is available for all census years from 1841 to 1911 and has been for some considerable time.
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That's interesting. I have the person/address button for 1939, but not on the census search page. I thought that they'd removed the feature.
EDIT ok, i've found it now - i have to select a record set first. Thanks
How do I learn how to find all these features?
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By trial and error to some degree
Below is a screenshot of the FindMyPast categories. One way to find something is to click on the search button at the top which then gives you a drop list of other categories. For instance you can click on the A-Z Index and search for a record through that.
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Thanks Girl Guide. I guess I hadn't appreciated that accessing the data sets in different ways gives you different fields to search. Thanks will explore more.