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Census De-coder

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**Dawn O**

**Dawn O** Report 1 Nov 2003 15:57

Hi Martin, Thanks alot for your time on explaining, like Kay still hasn't sunk in....shall also print off and study this well?!?! MANY THANKS. Regards, Dawn. P.S Where did you get those strange forenames from...?!?!

Kay

Kay Report 1 Nov 2003 12:35

Martin & Sheila, Thanks for that. Doesn't make a lot of sense at the moment but I'll download and print off what you say (martin) and have a go Kay

Martin

Martin Report 1 Nov 2003 12:19

Call me stupid if you like, but I see people mentioning a 1901 Census decoder. What on earth is it? And what does it do? Kay There are links embedded in the results displayed by the 1901 Census site to take you to the page with that name. These can be extracted to give a unique number for each household and each person. You used to also to be able to extract the piece and folio numbers but they changed thte format to stop that. If you sort by the PlaceID (household) all the results will be grouped into households. Similarly if you sort by the PersonID they are grouped into households with the members listed in order i.e. Head, wife, children usually. It can be very useful because there might 20 Bloggs in Anytown but when you sort you might find there are four households. Again there could be two Aloysius Bloggs but when you sort only one has a wife called Parthenia Bloggs so you have been able to get some useful information free of charge. The 1901Decoder lets you save the results before leaving the program (as EXCEL, CSV, GEDCOM, HTML) so you can do lots of searches, sort them afterwards and often identify people from the groupings of names in the family. Martin

Researching:
BRISCOE POUNDER BOLTON STOKESLEY MIDDLETON_TYAS KIRKBYMOORSIDE LAVERTON KIRKBY_MALZEARD GREWELTHORPE GRANTLEY BRYNREFAIL DEINIOLEN TALYSARN TREALAW LLANFIHANGEL_BRYN_PABUAN MAESMYNIS

**Dawn O**

**Dawn O** Report 1 Nov 2003 11:56

Hi Sheila, I am another whose feeling 'stupid' because I do not know what and how to use the Census decoder, I was watching this space for the answer. Please could you kindly explain it to me too.... Thank You.....Regards, Dawn.

Unknown

Unknown Report 1 Nov 2003 11:42

Kay - just sent you an e-mail

Kay

Kay Report 1 Nov 2003 11:38

Call me stupid if you like, but I see people mentioning a 1901 Census decoder. What on earth is it? And what does it do? Kay