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I'm confused. I have found my great-grandmother on the electoral register in 1910, along with a few other women. I though women didn't get the vote till after the Great War?
Does anybody know why this would be?

A friend of mine is a Great War researcher who is looking for more information about Frederick George Higgins. He is researching people who fought on the Somme but he is looking for more about their home life and family. I've posted in the Derbyshire forum, in case there are any relatives out there, but I also thought this would be a good place to look.

Please reply or DM me if you can help.
Thanks
Ruth

I've been looking up someone else in the Fritton register and found this entry for Aggnes Kempe:

"July 6th. Aggnes Kempe the wife of Michaell Kempe was buried without a minister the first that ever was so buried in this towne"

Might interest somebody researching the Kempe family!

I am sure this topic is on here somewhere , but what do people think about the charges for the viewing of the census. Apparently £3.50 for one view of one item. Very expensive.
I have been waiting for this like many others ,but would like to look up multiple people.
It is a bit prohibitive for those in low incomes.

Not only that, people are obliged by law to give this information and then their descendants are charged for it! This is the email I've sent to the National Archives and Find my Past:


"I am absolutely incandescent to find that you have colluded with "Find my Past" to allow them to profit from the information that was given, under duress, by our ancestors. I have made this general point several times - including to Sir Ian Diamond when we were filling in our own census forms last year. 
I resent having to pay a monthly membership fee at all, but I can understand there are costs to be covered and public money is tight, etc. Our local Council also makes the genealogy websites freely available at the central library, which is a good public service when you can get there.
Now I find that, not only is access channelled through "Find my Past", but also they are charging an additional fee for every page of the census you look at.
I have used census information in my working life and I realise that, in the grand scheme of things, providing census information to individuals has to come very low on the list of priorities. But this additional fee is just beyond a joke - it's not the money, it's the principle of the thing! Like a low-budget airline (remember those?) that charges you extra for all the amenities you would expect to be included.
I have looked at your website and am told that I can access the census at Kew, Aberystwyth or Manchester. Has nobody noticed we're in the middle of a global pandemic? I have only been out of the house half-a-dozen times during the past two years, for essential reasons and to be vaccinated. I am a 72-year-old widow who lives alone and have kept myself going largely by my family tree research. I was so looking forward to seeing the 1921 census which will have my parents on it.
You were very reasonable during the lockdown and I have taken advantage of the online access to your records which you made available at that time. 
Why have you allowed this to happen?"


 - let's see if I get any response!