Genealogy Chat

If you type in 1901 cenus data you get quite a lot of pages listed A to Z that have been corrected since it started that could be why some people cant find their familys etc.Just thought i pass this on although i suppose most of you knew this. Mary

Mary No, I didn't know that! I've had a look and I certainly think it's worth a visit for anyone who's having problems tracing someone on the 1901 census. There appears to be some pretty awful errors they've found! It makes you realise just how many there still could be on the site! Thanks for the tip Janet

PARDON ME FOR BEING A DIMWIT ! WHERE DO YOU TYPE IT IN? I TRIED ON MY ADDRESS BAR & MSN SEARCH HADDN'T A CLUE WHAT I WAS GOING ON ABOUT! ITS ME AGE I 'FINK ELAINE X

You have to use a search engine such as Google or Yahoo! Jan

Elaine Just type '1901 census data amendments' into your search engine. I used Ask Jeeves, but any will do. Janet

Sorry you are having a bit of trouble but i just typed it in up the top nothing to hard because i would not have done it. Mary

Thanks Peter, Great site. On the same result page check out the one headed Green Eggs Report for soc genealogy britain. List hundreds of web sites, some very familiar, but some I certainly didn't know about! (It's result 13 if you search with Yahoo) Debbie

Deborah. My turn to thank you now with all these driffent sites to look at i might just have a bit of luck and find someone. Mary

THANKS ALL IM ONLY A DIMWIT ON WEDNESDAYS (SOMETIMES THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS-------) ELAINE XX

Some of the mistakes really made me giggle. One bloke's occupation was 'leech man'. Sounds disgusting, but actually he was a 'coach man'.

Mary - you clever old thing you - will e-mail you when I get in to get the full story about this A-Z thing. I did notice on the 1901 one man's occupation listed as LIGHT WATCH MAN - did he only work days then?? Speak soon. Jacqui

This is a good site - I'm pleased to know that some of the mistakes I notified them of have now been changed. I had relatives with the surname Snowsill listed as Snowdells! Natalie Surrey

Fab site Mary - just the ticket. Couldn't find any of mine of course, but thats par for the course nowadays - I'm sure others will find their long lost though - some howlers on the errors. Also found a site showing statistics from the 1901 - the one I liked best was the one on Causes of death - interestingly only 4 males died in battle, 15 males were executed, 161 males were murdered, 39,000 died of respiratory disease and yet only 1417 females died of alcoholism - is there some moral in that tale? Jacqui - half way down a large red. ps - guess what? no males died in childbirth!!!

Good grief, some of those errors are just plain daft. I sometimes think the transcribers had a commonsense bypass. One occupation was listed as 'Driver (sub mariner)' instead of diver. Surely that can't have looked right to the transcriber? The best mistake I found was in my own family in Scotland - a 31 year old school pupil, living with her 45 year old father. They were one after the other on the census page - maybe the transcriber hadn't drunk enough coffee that day!

Hi Peter One of my great grandfathers was listed as a 'journeyman sailor'. I know he was a journeyman tailor. One of my other relatives was listed with surname James instead of Jones. I will certailnly look to see if they have done the corrections. Thanks for the info. Stan Driver

Can I ask, how do you report errors? I assume you have to pay to either view the image or transcription as they want the page,folio etc. I have found at least two errors. I don't see why I have to pay to report their errors. Margaret

I was told that a lot of this work was done over in India, so a lot of words might not have made as much sense to the transcribers. The frustrating thing is that even if you inform them of errors they do not list them all. My Reese family are listed as Keeves! It took me many attempts to find them as you can imagine! ther are still listed as Keeves nine months after I wrote to them!

Margaret I wondered too about reporting errors where I did not know the piece/folio etc So I put n/k ( not known) in the fields that would accept them and 0 in the schedule. Don't know if they will follow them up but I left an email address so they can query them.

Reading some of the comments on here, I'm not surprised so many people have 'missing' relatives from the 1901 census! Janet