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Offline Girl Guide

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Re: Searching for census by address
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 18 January 20 16:05 GMT (UK) »
By trial and error to some degree

Below is a screenshot of the FindMyPast categories.  One way to find something is to click on the search button at the top which then gives you a drop list of other categories.  For instance you can click on the  A-Z Index and search for a record through that.



Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: Searching for census by address
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 18 January 20 16:29 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Girl Guide. I guess I hadn't appreciated that accessing the data sets in different ways gives you different fields to search. Thanks will explore more.
Cumberland: Corson, Eilbeck, Frear(s), Gunson, Jackson, Jardin(e), Jordan, Lawson, Lowery, Noble, Sim(m), Smallwood, Tyson, Williamson, Wilson
Kent: Anscomb(e), Fisher, Watts
Devon: Moule
Glamorganshire: Evans, James, Lloyd, Moule, Rees
Lancashire/Merseyside: Birchall, Campbell, Chesworth, Disley, Fisher, Howard, Price