1911 census

[suttontrust]

To my surprise I got on it with no problems last night (granted it was nearly midnight!).  I bought my 60 credits and used 20 to look up my parents.  No surprises there, except my grandfather wasn't with his family.  Stupidly, I didn't follow that up but went looking for people in other trees I've researched.  For two of my friends it was a non-starter; Sunderland and Hull aren't on there yet.  But I used another 30 credits to look up another friends grandparents.  Tonight I've just gone back to use my last 10 credits to find my grandfather Herbert.  And there he is - but where?  He's a patient, presumably in hospital, but this is the last of 3 pages and it doesn't tell you what the institution is.  I'd have to spend another £6.95 to find that out. 

[essexdavid]

lot of hits even so. If only 50% are paid views still a lot of ££££

 So far I've done dozens of searches and not paid a penny (but found out lots of info, thanks to the "others in household" fields.  )

How can you search for "others in the household"? I've not found any way to do this other than paying, and even then, it may be the wrong family.
The "search address" function does not seem to be much use either since it is not possible to enter a house number.

[Daffodilly]

Suttontrust, I turned up an institution for one of my searches which had no address on it but when I clicked the next page it was the next building, so I went back and obtained the transcription instead which is cheaper anyway and that had the address on it.  I hope that helps someone.

Daff

[Paul Caswell]

I've seen quite a few questions this evening that may benefit from the technique I posted here:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,353037.msg2310652.html#msg2310652

It describes a way of tracking down the census reference of the person you've found. From that you can easily discover quite a lot, including sometimes a better idea where, other household members, neighbors etc.

Paul

[Jimson]

I've found the the transcriptions to be rather poor compared with Ancestry, ie plenty of errors.  If typical this is going to make searching more difficult.  I paid to check original returns but it got pricey.  1901 and earlier census returns sometimes helped.

Does anybody else feel that the transcription rate is higher than for Ancestry?

[brigcs]

Daff,

You helped me!

Thanks

Brig

[davidft]

I don't know if its higher than ancestry but they are falling into the trap of transcribing abbreviation marks as surnames. 8 of mine who had Do (for ditto) in the  surname field have been transcribed with the surname D along with nearly 3000 others.

I've reported the error on my 8 and asked them to change it - someone else can do the other 3000

[Sloe Gin]

Does anybody else feel that the transcription rate is higher than for Ancestry?

I haven't seen enough to say, but I've certainly seen a few.  Some are genuinely poor transcriptions, others are faithful reproductions of what has been misspelt on the original.

For the latter, I know the rule is "transcribe what you see", but in cases of obvious misspelling, eg where someone has misspelt Thomas as Tomas, I do feel that they should index both versions.

I didn't get the original image, so can't say if my relative really wrote his name as Stphen .....

[genjen]

I don't know if its higher than ancestry but they are falling into the trap of transcribing abbreviation marks as surnames. 8 of mine who had Do (for ditto) in the  surname field have been transcribed with the surname D along with nearly 3000 others.

I've reported the error on my 8 and asked them to change it - someone else can do the other 3000

They should have asked Rootschatters to do the work, we wouldn't be making that mistake!  

I have just spent a happy half hour in and around Brightlingsea, where there are dozens of my extended family, still living. How I wish this was on Ancestry and I'd know all about all of them by now. As it is, all I've been able to do is exclaim "Ooh, look, he's still alive!" or similar and add "After 1911" to the date of death column in my tree.