1911 census

[Sloe Gin]

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

You mean the search results?  No, but you can enter a place of birth in the advanced search if you have an idea what it might be.  Be flexible - it took me ages to find someone I knew to have been born in Sheerness.  She just wouldn't come up!  Turned out she had put "Sheppey, Kent".  Mind you, if I'd just put Kent in I would have found her earlier.

They ought to include the birthplace in search results, though.  It would actually relieve pressure on the site as we wouldn't all be spending so much time on trial and error. 

You'd think after going to the trouble of running the test, they would have spent a bit more time and thought on the feedback instead of rushing the thing out so fast.

[plimmerian]

just searched for Robert H Smith in Toxteth Park and also found a:

Myfanny Robert Smith female aged 9 in Toxteth Park!

 

[louisa maud]

plimmerian
This isn't so unusual, I know a family where the Gt grandfather insisted all children had his Christian name including the females, and it has been carried out on all births since, yes even the females still

LM

[Copyright-Editor]

[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?

At the moment, the RootsChat Copyright team are discussing the whole subject of the 1911 census.  The terms and conditions of the 1911 site state that the downloaded images are for your personal use.  Generally speaking an unwanted image will only contain 1 household, unlike previous enumerator schedules.

May we take this opportunity to remind you that as with other census images and transcriptions, we DO NOT allow either to be posted on RootsChat.

RootsChat Moderating Team

[Gadget]

just searched for Robert H Smith in Toxteth Park and also found a:

Myfanny Robert Smith female aged 9 in Toxteth Park!

 

I think you can stop being embarrassed. It will be Myfanwy surely  


Gadget

[genjen]

just searched for Robert H Smith in Toxteth Park and also found a:

Myfanny Robert Smith female aged 9 in Toxteth Park!

 

I think you can stop being embarrassed. It will be Myfanwy surely  


Gadget

But it says a lot about the skills, or lack thereof, of the transcriber, don't you think? 

[Gadget]

Quite a lot, Jen. did you see my foatloller of last night 

There seem to be a considerable number of transcriber errors highlighted on this thread and the previous Beta one.

the error reporting is a nuisance as well. i had to submit 3 error reports for one household transcription (one for each person who was wrongly transcribed) rather than one. More work for those of us who have already paid!

Gadget

[nort]

hi any one know when the 1911 is coming out on A******y,do we have to wait until 2011?
Steve

[hiraeth]

My grandfather is listed as a boarder in a house in Birkenhead.  His cousin is also listed as a boarder on the same page.  There are just the two of them on the page.  I recognized the address as the same one where my grandmother was living, so I searched her name and obtained a transcript with the identical reference number and address but she is listed on her own with the occupation Boarding House Keeper.  None of this comes as a surprise as the history was known from family and they married in 1912, but why would there have been two separate schedules made out for the same address?  Is this typical for the 1911 census?