1911 census for glamorgan.

[bevbee]

I know what you mean, and I can't really justify the amount of money I need to spend to get all my 1911 relatives looked up (especially the random Evans!).

I'm in the same boat with my Lewis side - loads of them! 

[halfasheep]

I think my biggest gripe is that when the 1901 came on line, I could search for Elizabeth Evans, and it would at least narrow the parish down to Llangynwyd, rather than Bridgend - if 1911 did this, I'd be able to probably a lot of my matches without wasting credits.

Bridgend or Glamorgan is too general for common names. I've tried locating a Harriet Evans, married to David Evans - still had a full page of matches in Glamorgan (as I do not know where they were - moved around a lot). That's potentially 100 credits on transcripts in order to find two people.

Even worse when John marries Mary!

[ambers]

At last I have found my Bradnums in the 1911

Transcribers can only put down what they see....so ggrand-dads writing and spelling are totally to blame.

I expected the surname to be mis-transcribed as is usual, so hats off to the transcriber because it looks more like Beadman, than Bradnum. His wife and a child are spelled as Marther instead of Martha, and he got a middle name wrong for one of them
Who is Jenny Elizabeth b1905 and where is Jenny b1895, who was always called Edith and married under that name ....no one has heard of a Jenny at all.
Why use initials for himself and names for the rest of the family     Thomas Charles is written as Tomas Chalks.

And why when I ticked variants and Wildcards did nothing show up.

I  found them by using the address search again from various certificates I have... but I won't always be that lucky.

Now where are my Summers family

Ambers

[newbie]

Hello ambers
OOh  well done!  Glad you found them!  After feeling all positive I am now in a deep doom, I can't find some of mine at all and I've checked all sorts of misspelling. What should be easy is turning into a nightmare!  I'm going nuts, how many ways can you misspell Ford?  I've tried variants wildcards etc with no luck I've looked for other members of the family found one with her grandad but where are the others!
I found searching by birthplace helped before with year (approx) of birth  and using no first name but no luck yet
The search goes on....
newbie

[ambers]

Hello Newbie,

Sorry that you are also having problems with the searches, it's driving me nuts too  


Sometimes I can find them one way but not another! The address search appears to be the best one for me or the first page listing the name only...not good if they have a common name .
The advanced search using variants doesn't work for me, even when I have all the correct details after I have found the original another way....I can't believe that.


Ambers

[halfasheep]

I've been lucky with some mis-transcriptions simply because I am aware that the family remained in the same house until the 1960's, but on my less well known ancestors, I'm having no luck - I have 1901 results on every member of my family bar one, but 1911 is proving very difficult to nail these people down.

Again, Evans - I have seen it as Evens, Evan, and Even, but how many other variations are there out there? I've even gone so far as to search outside Glamorgan (i.e. nationwide), but still nothing?

[rebekahm28]

Halfasheep, thats my problem too.  I want Aberkenfig and surrounding villages but it's all under 'Bridgend'. And when you have the surnames Price and Roberts, theres rather a lot!   Grrr.

[halfasheep]

And let's face it, Aberkenfig is hardly a sprawling metropolis is it! I'm sure I drove through it last bank holiday without realising 

[rebekahm28]

Lololol.  Did the kids throwing stones at the cars not give it away?