Good News ! 1911 Census!

[Mean_genie]

When FindMyPast put the outgoing passenger lists online it was (and still is) on a dedicated website 'Ancestors On Board'. You can access the records through the main FindMyPast site if you have an appropriate subscription, but if you only want to look at the passenger lists there is the PPV option through Ancestors on Board. I can't remember if the subscription option was there from the outset, or if it was PPV only to start with. When The Genealogist released the nonconformist registers on BMDregisters.co.uk that was PPV only, but after a while it was added to one of the subscription packages on their main site.

They have to have a PPV option for the 1911 census because it is a condition of their Licenced Internet Associateship (LIA) with TNA - the other LIAs are The Genealogist for the nonconformist registers (on BMDregisters),GenesReunited for the 1901 Census and Ancestry for the rest of the census, WWI service records and STOP PRESS, just released today, the incoming passenger lists 1878-1960.

They don't yet seem to have a link on the Ancestry site itself, but you can get to it through the announcement on TNA's own website

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/214.htm?homepage=news

Mean_genie

[avm228]

STOP PRESS, just released today, the incoming passenger lists 1878-1960.

They don't yet seem to have a link on the Ancestry site itself

Yes, I was very excited to find this today.

There is a link on the homepage of Ancestry.com, in the section What's Happening At Ancestry.

Anna

[avm228]

Nick from the  1911 website ( www.1911census.co.uk  ):

The National Archives is delighted to announce that brightsolid has been awarded the contract to digitise the 1911 census for England and Wales. brightsolid's genealogy subsidiary Find My Past will be making the census available online through a dedicated website at 1911census.co.uk, as well as through its own site at findmypast.com.

My emphasis 


Gadget

Hmmm... it does say that - but compare this extract from the "Official 1911 census newsletter" I've just this minute received:

Spread the word

1911census.co.uk will be, at launch and for some considerable time after, the only place to access the 1911 census online

Anna

[Gadget]

Someone had better tell them to take that announcement off the Home page then as it could be regarded as a breach of something or other.

No doubt I will p to v the first sighting of my parents and my other relatives and probably even do some look ups for others whatever the arrangements.


Gadget 

[Nick29]

Yes, but they do say that FindMyPast credits will be usable on the 1911 census site.

[Gadget]

Yes, but they do say that FindMyPast credits will be usable on the 1911 census site.

All 218 of them

 

 

I presume then that they are going to use our username to link to our main FindMyPast account so why separate them 

[kerryb]

And if my understanding is correct that is what mean_genie has described above for the Ancestors on Board, which was also first held on a separate site but accessed through the main FindMyPast site.

I can't wait to see my great grandparents newly married and expecting my gran some 6 months later.  After the marriage certificate that I have for them it is the first proof available that they were who I think they were. 

Kerry

[Nick29]

I think that if they didn't separate the sites, people with full FindMyPast subs would expect free access to the 1911 census.  

[kerryb]

Absolutely agree but throwing aside the cynicism for a moment, I think they are probably doing it in a bid to stop the meltdown that occurred when the 1901 was launched.  They are possibly hoping people will wait till they can use their subs and so a gradual usage will happen. 

The cynical side of me thinks its for profit, but then this is FindMyPast we are talking about and no its main rival 

Kerry