Greetings Nivard & All When using the 1841 & 1851 Scotland census seems to work fine as long as you use a person search and change the country tab to Scotland. However names and places seem to have numerous errors :( Cheers from Bruce in NZ ________________________________ From: Nivard Ovington <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2011 2:16 AM Subject: [ANGUS] Scotlands 1841 & 1851 census *transcripts* on findmypast Hi all It was announced some time ago that findmypast would be releasing the census for Scotland sometime this year Well they have this morning released the 1841 & 1851 for Scotland Before you get to excited, I must say there are a couple of major problems (well more than that actually) First they have released a *transcript only* no images, so you are in a worse position than you are with Ancestrys transcript (for example you can't search across all years with worthwhile search terms on findmypast) There is a message on each result which states the image is only available on scotlandspeople The transcript is no better than Ancestry as far as I can see, a birthplace for one of mine in 1851 is transcribed as "Lismahavow" (should be Lesmahagow) So my guess is it was done by people not conversant with Scotlands geography Added to all that (if that were not enough) they have added the Scots census to the same search as the other census, ie you search for a John BIGGS you get every John BIGGS in England, Wales & Scotland The only way you can search just Scotland is in each census year, so much swapping back and forth I took out a years subscription to findmypast mainly on the back of the announcement they would have the census for Scotland I could have saved my money Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Hi Bruce Granted it works after a fashion but you have to go into each year separately to search for Scotland I came across an odd situation last night, I can't recall the exact search I made now but it came up with two pages of results, I was searching for someone in Scotland only I checked through the first page of hits in Scotland and tried to go to the second page and the second were all English places Very strange, I can't replicate it now (thankfully <g>) Like you I have found lots of errors in the places in particular but also in the occupations fields such as "servent" Its just a pity that without the images its no more use than Ancestrys transcripts Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Greetings Nivard & All > > When using the 1841 & 1851 Scotland census seems to work fine as long as you use a person > search and change the country tab to Scotland. > However names and places seem to have numerous errors :( > > Cheers from > Bruce in NZ