> From: Norman Rowcroft <rowcroft@waitrose.com> > In the early days of my research I worked through microfilm records of the > 1851 census and transcribed Joseph Rowcroft (spelling may be slightly > different) aged 80 and born in Offerton.  He was located in the Stockport > workhouse.  The reference was HO 107/2156/843. > > I now want to check the image on FMP but cannot find him.  My next step was > to do a search using the census reference but, unless I am being a bit > dense, there is no way of doing this on FMP. > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > Norman > I don't see what your problem is Norman, it's really perfectly simple! 1) Go onto FMP, click on Census, Land & survey records and click on the 1851 census. I am assuming, BTW, that you have a subscription. 2) On the opening screen, instead of entering anything at all in any of the fields, go down to the link in the bottom right-hand corner entitled "census reference search" and click on it. I don't see how you can miss it. 3) In the next screen enter the 1851 census, the Piece Number 2156 and the folio number 843. It's not even necesary to enter the page number. CLICK! 4) Up comes 60 results including JOSEPH HOWCROFT on page 10. Click on RECORD VIEW and you will see the transcription and if you click on IMAGE VIEW you will see the actual record. The spelling may be HOWCROFT or ROWCROFT but you can check for yourself, it's debateable. The other way to get to it is to enter in the main search page "Joseph *croft" (wildcard), the birth year as 1771 plus or minus two years, the birth place as Offerton and do the search. Up comes Joseph again in an institution, the Stockport Union Workhouse. What could be easier? I suggest you go back and retry it. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE