Bill Wood wrote: > > SO from the above my full reference would be ................ > > ParishNo. : Enumeration No. : Page No. : Parish Name : County Name : 1881 > 147/00 007/00 014 > Banff Banffshire ? 1881 > Each parish is given a reference number, which is also a volume number of the census. So the '147' above is often called 'Vol 147' or "Volume 147'. The enumeration districts within the parish are numbered from 1 onwards, so we have 'Enumeration District 1,2 etc., often referred to as 'ED 1', 'ED2', etc Each ED has a book assigned to it, which is numbered from page 1 onwards. Each entry in the enumeration books is also numbered from 1 onwards. You can locate an entry in two different ways: 1) By the page number in the enumeration district book: 'Vol 147, ED 7, page 14'. 2) By the entry in the ED book: 'Vol 147, ED7 entry 136' (if, for example, this is the 136th entry in tge enumeration book). You can, of course, write both in your reference: 'Vol 147, ED7, page 14, entry 136'. All 3 ways will enable someone to find the original entry. If I know the entry number, I'll use the 3rd way. I'll also add the street address and county, as a convenience to the reader. -- Regards Dave

Dave, Thanks for the reply .................... how would one figure out the number 136 if all you have done is accessed it electronically via Scotlands People - what do you need to see to know the entry number ? Bill On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 8:20 PM, David Massie <davemassie@btinternet.com>wrote: > Bill Wood wrote: > > > > > SO from the above my full reference would be ................ > > > > ParishNo. : Enumeration No. : Page No. : Parish Name : County Name : 1881 > > 147/00 007/00 014 > > Banff Banffshire ? 1881 > > > > Each parish is given a reference number, which is also a volume number > of the census. So the '147' above is often called 'Vol 147' or "Volume > 147'. > > The enumeration districts within the parish are numbered from 1 onwards, > so we have 'Enumeration District 1,2 etc., often referred to as 'ED 1', > 'ED2', etc > > Each ED has a book assigned to it, which is numbered from page 1 > onwards. Each entry in the enumeration books is also numbered from 1 > onwards. > > You can locate an entry in two different ways: > > 1) By the page number in the enumeration district book: > > 'Vol 147, ED 7, page 14'. > > 2) By the entry in the ED book: > > 'Vol 147, ED7 entry 136' (if, for example, this is the 136th entry in > tge enumeration book). > > You can, of course, write both in your reference: > > 'Vol 147, ED7, page 14, entry 136'. > > All 3 ways will enable someone to find the original entry. If I know the > entry number, I'll use the 3rd way. I'll also add the street address and > county, as a convenience to the reader. > > -- > Regards > Dave > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

2009/12/27 Bill Wood <steamingbill@gmail.com> wrote: ......... how would one figure out the number 136 if all you have done is > accessed it electronically via Scotlands People - what do you need to see to > know the entry number ? > _______________________________________________ The entry number is in the first column of the image. It starts at 1 for each ED. Incidentally, a minor point of care: the ED numbers are not always consecutively numbered and in some cases a suffix letter has been added. I'm not sure how often these anomolies arise but I've seen them in some parishes. -- Best wishes and good hunting in 2010 Ray ********************************************************** >From Ray Hennessy Forenames website: www.whatsinaname.net Preferred Email address: ray@whatsinaname.net Hints for Scotland's People at http://bit.ly/WIAN-SCP **********************************************************

On 12/27/09, Bill Wood <steamingbill@gmail.com> wrote: > Dave, > > Thanks for the reply .................... how would one figure out the > number 136 if all you have done is accessed it electronically via Scotlands > People - what do you need to see to know the entry number ? > Hi Bill, I think you are asking how do you find out the name of the parish associated with the first number in the sequence. I am sure there are many ways to find this out, but an easy way is to check out the following website which details all the parishes, with their associated numbers. http://scotsfamily.com/parish.htm HTH, Jeanette jeanette.mcrobb@one-name.org Tracing : Bather / Christie / Cowie / Denholm / Duncan / Fear / Hall / Harley / Marshall / McCraw / McGregor / McRobb / Randall / Randle / Shea / Sheldon / Troup