GROS in Scotland's People

[suds]

Hello

I'm hoping a kind person out there can help us.

We have a census record on Ancestry but feel it may have been mistranscribed, so want to look at the original image. We  have been unable to find it on Scotland's people. After wasting several credits looking for the name, which could have been mistranscribed, we decided to try the GROS number in the advanced section. Alas, we can't make it work either.

The numbers we available are as follows:

Registration number:   644/3
ED:   28
Household schedule number:   26
Line:   23
Roll:   CSSCT1861_100

How do we assemble them into a number that Scotland's People GROS search will recognise.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards

Suds

[sporran]

Hello Suds,


what was the name in Ancestry, and the census year?


Regards,

John

[suds]

Hello John

Thanks for your response.

1861 census.

In Ancestry the name is Mrs John Ballantyne.

regards

Suds

[sporran]

Hello Suds,


the image does read Mrs John Ballantyne but has been indexed without a forename.  To find it, enter only the following on the 1861 census form:
Surname    Ballantyne
Age range  32 to 32
County       Glasgow City
District        Bridgeton

This will return only one result, which is your person.  Unfortunately, the family crosses pages with the youngest on the second page.


Regards,

John

[Flattybasher9]

Gross Data :- 644/03 028/00 005

Regards

Malky

[suds]

John

Thanks for that. I found it by your method. We kept putting Lanarkshire in as the county. We hadn't sussed the Glasgow City reference. Many thanks.

Malky

Thanks for the reference, but it doesn't work. The space in Scotland's People seems to allow for 15 characters and the reference you give is more than 15.

I'd still be interested to know how to come up with a reference that works.

Regards

Suds

[Flattybasher9]

That is SP gross data number from SP's page

Regards

Malky

[suds]

Malky

It's quite likely that I'm doing something wrong.

From the front page of Scotland's People I'm clicking on the 1861 census records.

I don't enter anything on this page but press the button marked "show advanced"

On the page that comes up there is a box marked "GROS data:"

I'm assuming that the box is to enter some information that the GROS would recognise. It won't allow me to put in the reference you supplied.

Since I had the ancestry page I assumed that the data would be there. As I said I'm quite likely to have misunderstood what I am trying to do or what is possible and any enlightenment would be gratefully received.

Regards

Suds

[MonicaL]

Suds

I have been trying to find something I read sometime ago and failing!

As you have experienced, the Ancestry Scottish census refs and those used by the GROS/SP are not an exact match unfortunately. Nothing you are missing or doing wrong.

Unlike with the English a/try refs where you can insert them onto a/try to find an exact page, you can't do the same with a/try and SP.

With the advanced search field for the GROS ref on the SP search screen, they really do mean the GROS ref only 

Did you look at the entry that John mentioned earlier? What was the GROS ref for it if you did look at it?

Monica