1911 census

[Tati]

Me too Bearkat - I'm sure the majority of us had surprises especially with the children born alive / children dead columns. 10 credits is more than what they charge for 3 images of the other censuses after all 

[Keziahemm]

Bought credits.................. found a few................ but Grandfather Alfred Godbehere in West Riding Yorkshire still eludes me....blast him. One annoying thing about the site though..it says you can use a wildcard* and the description says use it at the beginning as sometimes Capital letters are transcribed wrongly.....It won't let you do that....throws up a box saying you can't use wildcards at the beginning......beginning to think it may be the Irish Census.....lol  (apologies to our Irish rootschatters)
jan

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http://www.1911census.co.uk/content/default.aspx?r=24&104

Susan 

[Paul Caswell]

I did post the following earlier but I think it may have been overlooked due to the volume of posts on here. Does anyone have an answer?

I think I have managed to trace my Grandfather who was in the army in 1911. The military transcript shows he was based in this country (Horfield Barracks in Bristol), but I cannot confirm it is him as the original image is not available. The original would confirm his place of birth.

Any ideas when the image may be made available as I thought the whole of Gloucestershire was online?

I had the same problem while they were doing the beta. You get all the way through to the image but instead you get a little note telling you its not there.

I reported the problem but the image was for a relative for a christmas present so I don't want it now so I cant  check if they fixed it.

Have you reported the problem? I seem to remember a reasonably easy way to do it.

Paul

[kerryb]

Despite the lack of search facilities, ability to see neighbours, cost and every other moan and groan isn't it great that the site hasn't exploded like the site when the 1901 was released.  That's a real positive. 

Kerry

[Barbara F]

I agree Kerry 

I really expected the whole thing to grind to a halt like the 1901.

I have managed to find a lot of my direct ancestors and the index search is sufficient to group together the families of siblings without paying for downloads.

Overall I am quite happy!

Barbara

PS just wish the institution info was a bit clearer

[Thudnut]

I was doing so well, finding lots of ancestors on the 1911 site.  Well, that was until Mrs Thudnut came home from work early and found out how much I had spent 

It didn't help that I started giggling like an idiot!  (Happy that I had found so many).

When, oh when, will I learn........

Thudders 

[Gadget]

I'm getting bored with the 1911 now 

I've got everyone except two - waiting for the other counties - unless I go for 3rd cousins(1-n removed). I've not had many problems at all with the searches, apart from some daft transcription errors in the details. I've spent about £75 and that's it really.

I think that it might be an age/generation thing - I knew of them all before - a few extra births and some extra (dead) births but that's it. I did all the hard work over the last 10 years (and bits from when I was 8-12)

Now I'm checking up on the BMDs for bringing them forward. It would also be nice to do some neighbourhood investigations.

What I'd like are some of those early Scottish burial/Kirk sessions to come online and some more early Welsh ones.


Gadget

[cathybryant]

I looked up something I'd been puzzling over for ages and found exactly what I wanted.  fantastic.

[Lydart]

1911 says Great granny had 12 children ... I've only ever located ten of them ... any ideas how I might find the other 2 ??