1911 - what do you get? - to save keep asking.

[peterbmillzz]

Hi
if you follow this link it will take you to the BBC News Page.  They have the story and also a PDF file showing what you will see on the Census Form.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7816516.stm
Peter

[Sloe Gin]

More helpful info here.

http://www.1911census.org.uk/1911access.htm

[mezentia]

It's expensive - like Scotlandspeople

If you've got a common name in any one area it's difficult to narrow down the possible transcripts. However, the transcripts are good, and the images (so far) clear. Plus it's nice to see ancestor's own handwriting.

It's by pay-as-you go only at present, so don't take a subscription to findmypast.

One can only hope Ancestry can get access to it.

Incidentally, the 1931 census was completeley destroyed in a fire (for those who might still be alive when it would have been made public  )

Can't wait now for the military stuff, as the ancestor I'm interested in was in the Army in 1911.

[loafer2]

It looks like accessing the 1911 census could be an expensive business. I had rather naively assumed that it would be possible to access it via Ancestry, of which I am a subscriber, since they already have all the others from 1841.       

[peterbmillzz]

Hi, me to with Ancestry, I guess they will get it when FindMyPast has squeezed all the ££££ they can from it.

[mezentia]

It's 10 units to see a transcript, and 30 to view the source document. 280 units cost £24.95, therefore 1 unit is approx 8.9 pence. So 89 pence for a transcript, and £2.67 to see a source document. The lower cost pay-as-you-go options make it even more expensive. Given the numbers of people I know who do family research that are pensioners, this is a resource they will struggle to afford.

Each source document is a single household, so if you want to see a street you'll need deep pockets.

Does anyone actually know if the census will be made available via Ancestry?

I'm assuming findmypast will offer a subscription service at some point, but I don't really want two subscriptions for a effectively the same service, and Ancestry (despite it's critics!) is probably the best at the moment (as and when it's up and running, that is).

David

[peterbmillzz]

Census and Resource Discussion
  1911 census

lot more going on over here.

[loafer2]

I suppose this is what is called the operation of the market and if like me you've already paid a subscription to Ancestry for unlimited access to all the other census you're not really looking to pay more to another provider. I assume Ancestry would want to complete the set as it were but as peterbmillzz says only after findmypast has squeezed all they can from it.      

[Nick29]

The difference between this and all the other censuses is that the 1911 census was never microfilmed.  This meant that to put all the other censuses online, the genealogy companies would purchase copies of the orginal microfilms, then digitise, transcribe and index what they contained.  The 1911 census only existed in paper form, which means that Brightsolid (owners of FindMyPast, amongst others) have had to photograph the original returns individually, digitise them, pay people to transcribe and index them, and make them available online.  Any other companies wishing to host the 1911 census on their sites will have to purchase the digitised photos, and then do their own transcriptions and indexing.  It's very unlikely that the National Archives will allow others access to the original documents, so companies will have to negotiate with Brightsolid for pricing.