Thought this may interest you All the best John Carrington ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug King" <daphndoug@ic24.net> To: <john_carrington@LineOne.net> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:59 PM Subject: FW: 1901 Census - info > > > Hello Margaret and John, > > I received this e-mail this morning from friend Pat O'brien - attached. > > .............................................................. > > > An interesting item posted on the Society of Genealogists List: > > > > When I pointed out to my MP that some of the 1901 census transcription > had been done by people on the Indian sub-continent, who did not have > English as a mother tongue and who had no experience of English place > names, occupations and personal names, he was frankly incredulous. I > suggested he put a parliamentary question on this. Here it is with the > reply... > > DL: "To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, > how much of the work to transcribe the 1901 census returns on to > computer was carried on outside the United Kingdom; and if she will make > a statement." > > Ms. Rosie Winterton (PS, Lord Chancellor's Dept):" QinetiQ Ltd appointed > Enterprise and Supply Services (ESS) to undertake the transcription of > the data from the 1901 Census returns. A proportion of this work was > sub-contracted by ESS after full competitive tendering to a commercial > data input company based in India and Sri Lanka (Hays Document > Management). The proportion of transcription work undertaken outside the > United Kingdom was 78%" > > Yes folks that really is seventy eight percent! > > Please feel free to post this message elsewhere if you want. > -- > Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake > > This came to me via a Hants list lister. Feel it is of interest > to all of us. > > lionhouse@supanet.com > > > ==== DEVON Mailing List ==== > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > (http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV/) and the Devon FHS > (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/) > > > > ==== GSV Mailing List ==== > GSV ON-LINE LIBRARY CATALOGUE: You can access it on our web page at > www.gsv.org.au > > .................................................... > > Daph >