1911 census

[hoople]

A transcription that I looked at first had only two members of the household present, leaving a baffling puzzle. However, the original image that I then paid for had two more people in the household (including the husband!) and cleared up what would have been an impossible mystery. Phew!

[Ringrose]

If you click on neighbours do you lose credits.I was tempted but thought |Id be giving money away.
Ringrose

[Sloe Gin]

A transcription that I looked at first had only two members of the household present, leaving a baffling puzzle. However, the original image that I then paid for had two more people in the household (including the husband!) and cleared up what would have been an impossible mystery.

A matter for complaint, I'd say.  Ask for a refund !

If you click on neighbours do you lose credits.

Yes, you would be charged.  If you go into "My Account", you can tick a box "Warn me before each use of credits".

[kerryb]

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

Lydart my great great had 13 and 5 died, now I only know about 8 and I don't know how many of them lived or died.  So I am going through the birth registrations for that surname in that registration area and comparing with deaths in the same time frame ie they married 1885 and must have stopped having children due to age by about 1907.  Apart from getting to Surrey to look at baptism records this is the only way I can think of.

If you come up with a quicker idea let me know 

Kerry

[Lydart]

If only they had had a rare name ... 

[Sloe Gin]

Could some have been twins where only one survived?  I suspect that might be the case with one of my families.

(Just in case you are only looking at dates in between known births)

[Ruskie]

Things I don't like about the site:

- when you hit the back button all your names have disappeared and you have to re-enter it all - a pain when sometimes you just want to change one letter.

- as others have mentioned - the wildcard search doesn't work - an asterisk mid-name reads as a space and obviously gives no results.

- year of birth is only +/- 1 or two years.

- when you click on back button - get the message "webpage has expired" so you have to refresh and info has to be resent, then sometimes all info has to be re-entered.

My "back button problems" don't seem consistent (eg sometimes you need to re-enter info, sometimes not) - maybe I'm doing something wrong. I also realise some features are disabled at the moment.

- but mainly I don't like the way I can't find my OH's grandmother.  

[Dave Francis]

- when you hit the back button all your names have disappeared and you have to re-enter it all - a pain when sometimes you just want to change one letter.

If you click on Search Again (green button, near top left) you should find that the info you typed in is still there.

[Dave Francis]

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

Lydart my great great had 13 and 5 died, now I only know about 8 and I don't know how many of them lived or died.  So I am going through the birth registrations for that surname in that registration area and comparing with deaths in the same time frame ie they married 1885 and must have stopped having children due to age by about 1907.  Apart from getting to Surrey to look at baptism records this is the only way I can think of.

If you come up with a quicker idea let me know 

Kerry

My mother always understood that her father was one of eleven children.

A few years ago we discovered that there was a twelfth child who died shortly after birth - she was actually his parents first child.

Courtesy of the 1911 Census we have now discovered that there were two other children who died in infancy as well, so my grandfather was one of fourteen children!

We've searched on FreeBMD and think we have identified the two mystery children. More certificates to order!