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Thanks Irene and Jax,
It's all becoming clear to me now......
Kind regards,
Cathy
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Between 1911 and today, the most useful records are BMDs, electoral rolls and directories/phone books.
Electoral rolls only cover adults (and thru 1918-ish only male adults), and phones weren't widespread either, certainly thru WW2. Even in the early 1960s, I would still go to the call box at the end of the road.
The GRO index to BMDs is available thru 1983 at FreeBMD. It's not transcribed that far, but one can "view images" via a really klunky interface - but it's free.
GR is probably the cheapest way to get census records but, especially as they charge good money for it, the search is distinctly substandard. One really has to know exactly how it's been transcribed (or mistranscribed). They don't really hold the images, but link to FMP's images and transcriptions.
To get round the limitations of GR's search, it's really best to search elsewhere - either Ancestry or FMP, then, when I know what I want, look it up on GR.
As an example, suppose Gary wanted to find all his full sibs.
Search first on Ancestry, giving his parents surnames only, then pick out the likely hits for the GR image. One can do the same for marrs.
Every now and again, there's problems - somtimes the index is wrong.
Name: Anne S J*******
Spouse Surname: G*****
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1959
Registration district: Hackney
Registration county (inferred): Middlesex
Volume Number: 5c
Page Number: 1587
Anne is also listed as Shirley M J*******
We can see many of the details on Ancestry by clicking on the shopping basket - but don't be buying them thru Ancestry as they have a markup that more than doubles the cost of buying the cert vs placing the order online yourself with the GRO. However, when we look up the spouse, there's an incorrectly transcribed vol #.
Name: Leonard M G*****
Spouse Surname: J*******
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1959
Registration district: Hackney
Registration county (inferred): Middlesex
Volume Number: 5d
Page Number: 1587
Here's another ambiguous name:
Name: Isidore J*******
Spouse Surname: Setofaky
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1923
Registration district: London City
Registration county (inferred): Middlesex
Volume Number: 1c
Page Number: 64
Find Spouse: Dora Setofsky
Isidore is also listed as Isidore Jascowitz
Seems like he remarried.
Name: Isadore J*******
Spouse Surname: N*****
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1969
Registration district: Brent
Registration county (inferred): Greater London
Volume Number: 5a
Page Number: 1133
Find Spouse: Betty N*****
Well, maybe not - there's a 1958q2 death of Edward I J******* in Hackney a=59.
I guess this is an immigrant family - I can only find one instance of the name in 1901 - Joseph Jaskirwitz and his family - he's Austrian born, but a naturalized British Subject. He's at 6 Meard St in St Anne Soho. [rg13/100/116/33] - I transcribe it as Joseph Jaskiewitz
One can search using the census ref at FMP, and Ancestry (using their old search style). Of course, lacking a sub, one won't see full details of the hit, but one will see the name - FMP agrees with my transcription.
As an aside, another complaint abt GR is that there's no easy way to see an adjacent page. I don't know what info you get with a census image on GR. However, for this image the full ref is available - the 1901 census code (=rg13) and the piece # (=100) appears on the PRO copyright slip off the margin of the page proper. The folio # (=116) is stamped on every other page using an increasing stamper, and the page # (=33) is printed on the page. To find the following page, increase the page #, and to find the preceding page decrease both the folio # and the page #.
FMP insists you use the full ref, but Ancestry will let you omit the folio #. This would bring up all the page 33's in the piece (4 of them here) and I could then increase or decrease that and get the 4 pages of names and hopefully spot whom I wanted, or else try them all.
Don't assume my examples have anything to do with your mob. I was just picking examples.
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mgnv, thank you for a very detailed answer. The incredible thing is that I am looking for two names at the moment:
Joseph Lester (my grand father) and Edward Jascourt (could be Jascowitz) so it intrigues me that the example you used came out with a Jascowitz.
Was there any connection with my name when you were doing these searches?
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