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I just wanted to thank everyone who has filled in the questionnaire for me once again.

If there is anybody reading this who can spare of couple of minutes to fill in the form, the questionnaire will be available until the ends of this week. Any assistance with this research will be much appreciated.

Stephen Tippin

The form takes ages to load, then gets stuck at Page 1. It looks like it's looking for me to confirm that I have read the information and am happy to take part in the research, but there's nowhere to click to agree to this. Clicking on Next does nothing.

I am sorry to hear that people are having trouble filling in the questionnaire, I have just had a look on my laptop and my iPad and the form loads for me, so hopefully it was just a brief issue with Google last night. There is a question on the first page as pointed out by Fisherman, this is the only required question within the questionnaire so it does need to be clicked before you can access the second page.

I could not get past page 1 either, but I thought it was because I had to sign in to Google, I refuse to have a Google “account” 

You should not need a Google account to fill in the form. I believe this option is just to allow people to save their progress. For people who are signed into Google when filling in the questionnaire, no personal data (such as username) is obtained by the questionnaire, it is fully anonymous.

I have a suggestion for the layout of your survey ….
‘Back’ button is better on the bottom left …
‘Next’ button is better on the bottom right.

Currently it is too easy to hit the “clear” button on the bottom right where most surveys have the “next” button. (this is just a petty nit pick from someone who does thousands of online surveys) 

Thanks for the suggestion Ruskie. I don't know if I can change the button layout as this was pre-set by Google, but I will look into it.

And finally, a big thank you to everyone who has filled in the questionnaire so far! Your help is much appreciated.

Hello RootsChat,

My name is Stephen Tippin and I am currently completing the third year of a computing course at the University of Worcester. For my final project, I am attempting to design and build a piece of software that will allow family historians to store and analyse census returns.

At present the analytical tools that I am considering are only applicable to my own requirements, but I am sure that there will be other tools that should be considered for the final software. This is where you come in, if you have 5 to spare it would be great if you could fill in the questionnaire linked to this message.

The questionnaire focuses on what analytical tools family historians would like to see in the software, as well as what the final piece of software should look like. Most questions are giving a rating out of 10 for certain tools, or how you feel about existing software.

All data obtained from the questionnaire is 100% anonymous. No personal detail will be obtained that is able to identify who has provided a response. In line with the University of Worcester’s guidelines and the Data Protection Act (2018) all responses will be deleted within a year of completing the project (est. May 2023).

To ask any further questions, please feel free to contact myself, Stephen Tippin, or my project supervisor Richard Wilkinson.

If you are able to help out the link to the questionnaire is; https://forms.gle/qDYWe9sDgfjvHq2P9

Thank you for your time,
Stephen Tippin

I was unsure where I should post this message so I put it in the common room, apologies if this is the wrong place for this.

This is mainly a question for the moderators of the site. Basically I am current studying computing at the University of Worcester and for my final year project I have decided to merge by two favourite studies, computers and history (in particular family history).

I am looking to develop a piece of software to analyse census returns. To achieve this I could do with asking people to fill in a brief questionnaire to find out how people use their computers to store census data and what analyse tools they would like to see in a piece of software.

Before I start drafting questions I just wanted to make sure that I would not be breaking any rules on rootschat by posting a link to the questionnaire. No personal details would be requested, it would be completely anonymous and the data would be deleted as soon as my project has been graded.

Kind Regards
Stephen Tippin