1911 census

[Olly]

Wow!

I was sent a copy of the original by a relative and it showed what I was hoping for - that my grandad wasn't living at home with the family.
But digging deeper, my eldest aunt wasn't there either so I followed her up and found her with HER grandad, his wife of six years and a half sister to my grandmother.
The half sister, Eva, is someone that I vaguely remember as a child and now it all fits into place.
Still not sure about my grandad though, will have to do some more digging.

I agree the 60 credits go nowhere. I have 20 left so can look at 2 more transcripts.

All in all, I think, for me, it was a resounding success.
Hope others are having the same sort of luck!

[Gadget]

Well, I've seen it all now 

A relative of mine, Billy Meredith, one of the football legends of the early era has been transcribed as a 'Professional Foatloller' b. Derbyshire Chisk P. (Denbighshire, Chirk) and my Uncle Jack Mates (John) was living with him as a boarder - i wondered why he wasn't at home with his family 

I think this calls for an error report


Gadget

[millymcb]

I just followed Darren's instructions for finding "others in household" and it worked a treat...very clever.  Thanks for that...I'm just off to try another family now

Milly

[Nick29]

Well, I've seen it all now 

A relative of mine, Billy Meredith, one of the football legends of the early era has been transcribed as a 'Professional Foatloller' b. Derbyshire Chisk P. (Denbighshire, Chirk) and my Uncle Jack Mates (John) was living with him as a boarder - i wondered why he wasn't at home with his family 

I think this calls for an error report


Gadget

Maybe he was a foatloller in his spare time ?   

[Evie]

[Yes, same thing happened to me too. Is there any way we could donate unwanted images anywhere, or would that be naughty?
Evie

What are the rules concerning this please?

[cb1964]

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?

[Necromancer]

3. Remove "Albert" from the Personal Details first names, and add "Albert" to First names in "Other members of the household". You will then see everyone else in that household with the surname Garrard.

Cheers, simple and effective !


Given the seemingly high rate of mistrans found by this small sample of the search population, I feel even more strongly about FindMyPast's (Beta) rules and ongoing charge rates ....

[Sloe Gin]

It's amazing how much you can find out by adding and removing search terms though.  I've just found out as much about a certain family as I would get from the transcript (apart from unrelated household members and the exact addresses, which aren't important to me in this case).

Using 1891 & 1901 census details as a guide, plus FreeBMD to check for deaths/marriages, I have found one son still in the same place as a boarder, other son working as a footman in London, and father & daughter moved to somewhere in between.

You can put head, daughter, servant, boarder etc in the relationship field, as well as widow, single etc in the keyword field to confirm marital status, and have a guess at occupation. 

[essexdavid]

To correct myself, you can search for others in the household, as long as they have the same surname. Here's how you do it, with one of my examples:

I've got the idea now..............BUT on searching for Henry CORBEN who was alive in 1911 the right one failed to appear at all. Simply searching for CORBEN and the place of birth found him indexed as "HERNY" !
By inputting HERNY I was then able to find his wife Jane........but then I knew that anyway!

The indexes do not appear to include place of birth...........or am I missing something?
David