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I must agree with Rose on this one the cost is mad!!! and people are asking

I have helpped 3 people now but I dont mind as so many people have helpped me in the past and I,ve been REALLY greatful for thier help so am only repaying that .........................

BUT I did do my look ups first and I dont pass it on unless I get a lot of details about whom I,m looking for on the 1911 census then I look and c&p it onto here ...............

BUT it is very costly and I to have spent £60.00 since december

Regarding asking for look-ups.

People have been asking for long and weary for look-ups on Scotlandspeople, so this is not new.

I have helped many a time in the past using my own credits on Scotlandspeople and would really love to ask for help in the 1911 census.

I need info for (one) household only to answer a long standing query.

However, I am put off asking ..... and I can understand why.

Rambling Rose,
Many thanks for answering most of my questions regarding the 1911 census. It is good to see you are still on here. I haven't managed much research since I moved almost two years ago but I am anxious to find my father's family to see how many children there were in 1911. I think I may well splash out on this.
Can anyone tell me what the subscription to FMP actually covers? I subscribed to it when it was 1847 on line and found a great deal of information.
Rosemary(was from Essex)

Helen I wouldnt be able to resist buying 60 credits to solve your mystery.

Go on do it only 6 95 and all solved. Only wish NR Yorkshire and Durham were done. Hoping to find my grandmother living with some relative. Shes a nursechild in 1891 and a lodger in 1901.
More than likely she will be a servant in 1911

You have to buy credits from FMP to view the 1911 census, even if you already have a subscription with them, because at the moment its on a pay as you go basis only. You don't need to be a subscriber to buy credits. Forgot to say theres a 10% off code floating round the boards you can use.

Helen, I could be off the mark I think if someones helped a lot of people then asking for a look ups fair enough, I know if someone had helped me then I'd be happy to help them, its just a lot of people are assuming its for free or part of a subscription. Actually if you PM me/post the details of who you are trying to track down, guess you have it down to one person on the search will just the transcript do you for now?

Would like to publicly thank Kempina and PME for their very generous offers of looking up the 1911 census query for me.

I really appreciate the kindness and willingness of folk in helping out.

I am delighted with the results of the search....as I found out my ancestor had married for the 3rd time and had a further two children.

Great stuff!

Helen

I use the 1911 site itself, not fmp ....... www.1911census.co.uk

The cost is the same as Rose put in the header ...... but I don't feel that I have been "done" by first buying a subscription to findmypast.


My hope is that ancestry will eventually carry it along with all the other censuses. That's what happened with the 1901.


I also have put up the costs in a couple of places, mainly on threads started by people asking How do I .......

It's very easy to spend £50 or £100 without quite realising how many credits you are using!



sylvia

just a couple of tips when looking at the 1911 census....
might be helpful to newbies ? (forgive me if these are too 'obvious' ) please add any you think of

to save money, the absolute must is to have as much information as you can aqcuire to hand, from earlier census, FreeBMD. Family search , sites with old maps on (for changed county borders perhaps) etc

having a good prior knowledge of full names ,birthdates, possible street names, areas , can narrow the search so you don't end up having to look at so many transcripts .

Rose xx

Hi All,
There is one detail about the 1911 minimal lookup that varies from the 1901 and that is there is no place of birth given.
For me that would mean spending credits on looking for somebody who may well not be my relative ??

Frances

1911
There are ways of trying to narrow the right family
If you just put in surname then lower down the page in
other members in the household a first name
The search will bring up other members in a house that contain that name.
You can narrow it further by adding birthplace etc.
But sometimes less gives you more answers that you can then use to narrow the search i.e results will give districts. then use this on search page.It all helps so that you don't pay to see a wrong family!

n

Thanks Janice, most helpful, I will give it a try. Anything to save the pennies!

This appears to be the reason for the hight cost of viewing 1911 census

Whilst the cost of the census is in line with many of the other records released by the National Archives over the past few years, it is more expensive than the 1901 Census when released in 2002.

The main problem seems to be the vast number of individual households schedules that need to be scanned and transcribed - calculated that this one census involved more scanning than ALL of the previous censuses added together! That's because instead of simply scanning the enumerators' schedules, each with an average of 4 or 5 households, this time they've scanned the individual forms completed by the householders.

Nobody needs to ask anybody else to do a look up...it is there for all to use.

lol Pam, so are all the others but check how many lookup requests are posted on the boards each day!

Hi folks

I am going to have my first go at the 1911 census, but before I do because of the cost involved, could those of you who use it tell me if it is based on a surname search or on an address please?

Thanks for any help

this is a copy of the search box

Search the 1911 census
* indicates a compulsory field.

First names
*Last name
Place of residence
See which counties are available. Register to get email updates.

Year of birth
Full person search
Search for a place

so you can do surnames
and you can do street names

when you click on 'Search for a place ' this comes up

Location
*Street
County / other
residential place

All Records Alderney - COMING SOON Anglesey - COMING SOON Bedfordshire Berkshire Brecknockshire - COMING SOON Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiganshire - COMING SOON Carmarthenshire - COMING SOON Carnarvonshire - COMING SOON Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland - COMING SOON Denbighshire - COMING SOON Derbyshire Devonshire Dorsetshire Durham - COMING SOON Essex Flintshire - COMING SOON Glamorganshire - COMING SOON Gloucestershire Guernsey - COMING SOON Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Isle of Man - COMING SOON Jersey - COMING SOON Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Merionethshire - COMING SOON Middlesex Monmouthshire - COMING SOON Montgomeryshire - COMING SOON Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland - COMING SOON Nottinghamshire Overseas Military - COMING SOON Overseas Royal Navy - COMING SOON Oxfordshire Pembrokeshire - COMING SOON Radnorshire - COMING SOON Rutlandshire Sark - COMING SOON Shropshire Somersetshire Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire Westmorland - COMING SOON Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire East Riding (with York) - COMING SOON Yorkshire North Riding - COMING SOON Yorkshire West Riding

Surname search Jackie. Have fun!

Jackie, it also allows you to search by address, but doesn't give you the name of whose there, so you have to pay to see the transcript or orginal, for that information.

Also on the address search road and street, also I am guessing most other endings are abbreviated, I found it best to just search the street name and leave the 'type' off the end.

The adress search means I now know who was living in my great grandads house (addresss listed on wedding certificate ,20 years later so was a long shot) in 1911, sadly not his family.

You don't have to pay to search, just to view transcriptions and orginals.

Personally I like being able to search for other family members or wouldn't have any hope of tracking down some relatives, well not without spending a lot more than I have done.

Rose,
Once again Thank you for the information you have just posted. I will have to wait to search for my relatives as they are all on your coming soon list..
Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Hampshire.
Rosemary