Does anyone remember the LDS issue of the 1881 transcribed Census on sets of CD ROM in 2000?
We were having to book weeks in advance 25 years ago, just to get an hour on it at the local Library.
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After 11 years and more than 2 1/2 million hours of volunteer labor, the largest census ever to be automated is now available on CD-ROM for home use. The automated 1881 British Census, which contains information for more than 30 million individuals, was announced May 4 by the Church Family History Department. 8 May 1999"
When I originally began it was train, motorcycle or car rides to the archives who held the microfilm reels and hope they had some form of alphabetical surname index by place, fortunately my ancestors paid for a street directory entry. But trying to find these roads on a Census reel, to discover the house was on the other side of the street, which was on the next reel, or they must have moved from the address
Our nearest Library (quickest to get to) for the GRO Index on fiche was 25 miles away at Birmingham!
Then you sent a cheque and Application Form and relied on a helpful Superintendent Registrar to try and find your B, M, or D, Certificate!
Probably run ragged searching all the Registers of all the Sub-Districts!
Mark
