Good News ! 1911 Census!

[kerryb]

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

And you don't think FindMyPast wants profits?  This is the site that won't offer the option of a month's access ....

I was disappointed with the email, it didn't tell us anything we didn't already know.  I would like to have some idea of the order in which they will release the regions, and a rough timescale.  They are surely in a position to say, for instance, we are releasing London, then Birmingham, then Liverpool or whatever.

I am sure that FindMyPast want profits!   They are running a business after all not a charity 

However they just seem to have a few more scruples than Ancestry, ie they care about getting transcriptions correct and they reply if you contact them. 

Kerry

[toni*]

they are releasing major cities first

[stonechat]

And again - the closeness of 1911 to 1912 where BMD indexes start giving spouses name for marriages and mothers maiden name for births will allow families to be 'reconstructed' forwards.

I think that once the Dove/Magpie projects eventually come about and get unstuck from the mire, there will then be spouses names, mother's maiden names, and age at deaths for all dates

Bob

[stanmapstone]

I also suspect that the birthrate is already slowing down in 1911.

Britain was a huge baby factory during the latter 1800s - as we can see in the census. The country was spectacularly succesful at producing huge numbers of people to populate an empire

maybe 3-7 is the most common number of kids rather then the 7-14 of 50 years previous

The number of births registered 1881-1890 was 1,778,048, for 1891-1900 it was 1,831,030, and for the years 1901-1910 it was 1,859,642
The number registered in 1903 at 948,271 was the highest from the start of civil registration.
Office of National Statistics
Stan

[Sloe Gin]

they are releasing major cities first

We have known that for some time though.  Surely by now they can give a little more detail than that.

[carol8353]

I think this is a perfect example of 'treat em mean,keep em keen'.

They'll wait until loads of us have purchased credits as Xmas presents etc and then tell us that the first place to go live is some obscure place that no one's ever heard of.

Carol

[andycand]

Hi

I wouldn't be purchasing credits for FindMyPast with the intention of using them on the 1911 census until you know for certain when or if they can be used. I suspect that they won't be usuable until the census is accessable through FindMyPast itself and not a separate website. This may well be a couple of years away. The National Archives and FindMyPast, depending upon who outlaid the money, will want to recover as much of the cost of digitizing and indexing as possible. I suspect that it will be dearer than earlier censuses.

Hopefully they will inform us about the proposed costs to access the information soon.

Andy

[Aulus]

Am I missing something here? If the 1911 site is ppv, there will  be no point in subscripbing to FindMyPast. I was intending to drop Ancestry next year & join FindMyPast, but there seems no need now

Steve

Precisely what I what I was thinking of doing and probably won't for now.

[Aulus]

I wonder how many people have actually paid the £45 or whatever it is to get census records before it is released.  It would be interesting to know.

Kerry

Asking TNA and citing the Freedom of Information Act should get you that information.