Tips to find people on Census .

[lyn22]

Thanks so much Jen B I will have a look at that death for her . Carrie there are some funny things on the Census I love reading them. Take Care Lynette 

[Mike in Cumbria]

When searching based on birth years, I always look for the youngest person in the family first - there's more chance of  their birth year being recorded correctly than anyone else.

[lyn22]

Thanks Mike that's a good tip Take Care Lynette 

[Aniseed]

I had lost two distinct but related sets of ancestors on the 1861 census. I tried everything to find them, but nope, nothing doing. It was only a couple of years later when I broadened out my searches and bought the marriage certificate of my great great grandmother's brother that I realised he got married on 7 April 1861, which was census day, and both sets of rellies must have spent census night at a knees up in some hostelry and obviously didn't fill in the forms! It was a great relief finally to work it out.

[lyn22]

That would have been a relief some relatives drive me crazy searching for them Take Care Lynette

[mumjo]

I had lost two distinct but related sets of ancestors on the 1861 census. I tried everything to find them, but nope, nothing doing. It was only a couple of years later when I broadened out my searches and bought the marriage certificate of my great great grandmother's brother that I realised he got married on 7 April 1861, which was census day, and both sets of rellies must have spent census night at a knees up in some hostelry and obviously didn't fill in the forms! It was a great relief finally to work it out.

Good to know weddings were celebrated with as much gusto then as now

[thunderfoot]

I'm using the 1861 Census search on familysearch.org for the name of Sullivan in Glamorganshire. Have found one name (Daniel) at https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M7BC-9L8 and believe his wife (Betzy) to be at https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M7BC-9LD.

Daniel is shown as the Brother to the 'Head' and Betzy is shown as the Sister-in-Law to the 'Head', and I'm wondering if I can use the URL addresses to safely find other members of the same household, as I've noticed that the only difference between these URL's for Daniel & Betzy is "...9L8" & "...9LD" respectively, so I'm wondering if I can safely use all the other URL's that end "...9L*" as being from the same household???

See new topic with replies:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,622303.0/topicseen.html

[KGarrad]

Much better to start a new thread, and ask RootsChatters to look it up for you?!

[Mavals]

I spent more than 30 years looking for  Donaldson in Scotland in 1841 when he was 15 ish. I gave up in the end, then had a go at FindMyPast and found it earlier this year.

When I try Scotlands People on line  however it fails to show up, but I also had the name of the family where he was working and he is recorded as born in Scotland - even though he is still living in the town of his birth, so was able to print off a copy.

Obviously the head of house ( who was Chamberlain Steward to Duke of Buccleugh)  could not be bothered to find out details of their staff as all servants were born in Scotland.

I have also found my own great grandparents recorded as Keary - it was Vicary.
I also recommend using other family members as others have suggested. I couldn't find my grandparents in 1911, but tried my uncle's name, he was 2 at the time, and got it straight away.

Moral being: keep looking and try wild cards etc whenever possible