rootsuk.com

[suttontrust]

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.

[meles]

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

[Mogsmum]

Ditto.  Not good - IMHO

[Kevwood]

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.

[suttontrust]

Thanks, Kev, I did find him eventually by other means.  The site is getting better, but it went live too early.

[Cas (stallc)]

Thanks for the info.

Cas

[kooky]

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

[MatthewJ]

Thanks for the warnings 

[clulee]

kooky why were you looking at clulees or was it clulos?