1911 census Beta on Find My Past

[AngelFish]

'I found my grandma, and some more distant 3rd cousins, but that's all. Very exciting, though, because if you shell out 30 credits for the original image you get your ancestor's own handwriting, which in my case was my great grandfather!'

Wow I'm looking forward to seeing that.  Um... wonder if I could match hand writting that that on the back of some photographs...

[Sloe Gin]

30 CREDITS?

That is extortion.

[avm228]

After all my whingeing, I got the "magic email" today!

Have so far found lots of my direct paternal line: my grandfather aged 5 with my great grandparents, g-g-grandfather elsewhere with a second wife I didn't know about, another set of g-g-grandparents, and g-g-g-grandparents in their dotage but still with pretty good handwriting (they died about 5 yrs later).  Actually I'm all around pretty impressed by the handwriting and care taken with filling in the schedules, with the exception of one of the g-g-grandparents who didn't bother to fill in their address.  Hmmm...

Also discovered by way of the "how many children" questions is the existence of two children who died in infancy of whose existence I had previously been unaware.

Actually it's quite a different experience looking at the household schedules compared to what we're used to with the enumerators' returns - the household is seen in isolation rather than as part of a street or community.  Fascinating though

Anna

[Alan7636]

Received the Email from FindMyPast today and immediately used the site with great success to knock down a brick wall that had defeated me for about 3 years.

So far I’m impressed with the quality of the original documents, the two that I have looked at were extremely clear and precise but if you need to print them off it takes quite a bit of manipulation to turn them into black and white otherwise printing copies as downloaded will be expensive on printer cartridges.

Pity the Beta period is so short though, looks as though I'll be busy this weekend looking for any missing rellies.

Alan

[davidft]

According to latest WDYTYA magazine, 1911 will be released in stages, firstly London followed by English counties, Wales and finally the islands.

I'm hoping Staffordshire will be one of the first counties 

Susan 

The 1911 census is being released in piece number order. The piece numbers correspond to the GRO registration numbers and so on that basis Staffordshire will be about halfway through the release. See link for the order the GRO numbers fall and hence the order in which the counties will be released

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/civreg/GROIndexes.html

[Necromancer]

No cigar I'm afraid - for this Beta test only London, Staffs and somewhere else is searchable .... 

[davidft]

No cigar I'm afraid - for this Beta test only London, Staffs and somewhere else is searchable .... 

Apparently London, middlesex,wilts and Staffordshire are available in the beta test.

[Necromancer]

Probably at x-poirposes there - I thought your previous post was saying that Staffs wouldnt be availble just yet - ie not in the Beta site ...   

[davidft]

Yes sorry Newf should have made it clearer that the original post related to the full roll out not the beta test.