Good News ! 1911 Census!

[Gadget]

I'm a few + years over 50 and I know where my grandparents were living - both sets within about 20 yards of each other (and their son and daughter both at home    ). A widower great was living with one set of grandparents, my one set of greats were a bit further along the road and the other great about 1/2 mile away.

For a lot of roving ancestors, they seemed to have settled down by then 


Gadget

[lookingforold]

Do you suppose Ancestry will have the 1911, or will those of us who use that have to change subscriptions ??   I can't think that Ancestry will be wanting to loose customers !

Had an e-mail today from 'Findmypast', the Official site that will have it. Even their Subscribers are going to have to pay EXTRA to view it as it's a 'pay-to-view' site so it may as well just stay as an on-line site of its own.

[stonechat]

Hi

Emails from FindMyPast have indicated that they will be the only site with it at first.

I won't want to pay any extra money for it

I loathe ppv and want subscriptions

[kerryb]

Hmm

I'm still awaiting an email from FindMyPast despite being a subscriber.  I wonder if they are introducing it as ppv to begin with to stop any chance of a repeat of the 1901 release - meltdown. 

Kerry

[Nick29]

Hi

Emails from FindMyPast have indicated that they will be the only site with it at first.

I won't want to pay any extra money for it

I loathe ppv and want subscriptions

Me too !  Subs Credits wouldn't be so bad if they lasted more than about 10 minutes before they expired.  I know I now pay a lot of money for a World subscription, but I don't have to worry about how many pages I'm viewing.  Because of a mis-transcription, I once had to trawl through about 40 pages of census to find my great-grandparents, and I'm glad I wasn't paying per page then.   

[stonechat]

YEs those really difficult to find people are a pain - I  have one wh does not appear on the 1901  even though I know where  he was in 1898.

Bob

[Gadget]

Although I now subscribe to FindMyPast, I still have a pile of credits left over from the old days.  I wonder if I will be able to use them to view the 1911?


Gadget

[kerryb]

Good point Gadget, I have quite a stash of them too which now never seem to get used but remain on my account. This may be a good use of them if they don't delete them first. 

Kerry

[drodgers34]

Not sure why they would go PPV - I'd have thought it would add extra overhead compared to subscription

--The extra overhead to meter every item viewed.

--The numbe of people getting the info anyway by doing excessive searches - i remember you could download a 1901 extractor from another site which would collate all the searchable info - which gave you most of what you would want to see.

As I see it most people wpuld only want to view the originals for close fmily - either 2 grandparent families or 4 great grandparent families. Older than that is unlikely to be on 1911

Then perhaps sibling families if you are really keen.

Thoase wanting to do one-name  or one place or doing descendent charts would wait for subscription



Plus if they went the subscriptions they have a chance of poaching regular subscribers from ancestry etc - how many people would justify more than one subscription ?