Dear Listers In case this info is useful ...  I suddenly found this evening that both Ancestry and Findmypast changed the mode of access since I last needed to use this search mode. To fill in census refs in ANCESTRY and FINDMYPAST   (and goodness knows why they make it so difficult...)   ANCESTRY   Go into Ancestry. Click SEARCH Click SEARCH ALL RECORDS Click on OLD SEARCH (top right of screen, under HELP] Click on UK CENSUS COLLECTION in the right hand column And at the bottom of the first dialogue box, near the orange coloured SEARCH button LO! a line of the boxes for us to fill in the details.   FINDMYPAST      Searching Findmypast using Census refs has changed since I last used this... although they give a url on their help pages I couldn't find it on the various menus... It used to be on the Address search pages forms. http://www.findmypast.co.uk/referenceSearch.action   Best wishes   Jen

I find it much easier to just go in from the main page, search the name I want, if I think they died in the UK I will use county of birth (if you use county you get no shipping records) and then just look over the results (always using old search, exact) Eliz On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jennifer Cairns <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Listers > > In case this info is useful ...  I suddenly found this evening that both Ancestry and Findmypast changed the mode of access since I last needed to use this search mode. > > To fill in census refs in ANCESTRY and FINDMYPAST > > (and goodness knows why they make it so difficult...) > > > ANCESTRY > > Go into Ancestry. > > Click SEARCH > > Click SEARCH ALL RECORDS > > Click on OLD SEARCH (top right of screen, under HELP] > > Click on UK CENSUS COLLECTION in the right hand column > > And at the bottom of the first dialogue box, near the orange coloured SEARCH button > LO! a line of the boxes for us to fill in the details. > > FINDMYPAST > > Searching Findmypast using Census refs has changed since I last used this... although they give a url on their help pages I couldn't find it on the various menus... It used to be on the Address search pages forms. > > http://www.findmypast.co.uk/referenceSearch.action > > Best wishes > > Jen > > ================================ > Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html > > ------------------------------- > 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

Absolutely Liz, but sometimes people only post a reference - and (especially Ancestry) its easier to use the Census Refs (Piece, Folio, Page) rather than fight through all the upcoming names.   Cheers Jen   From: Eliz Hanebury <[email protected]> To: Jennifer Cairns <[email protected]> Cc: Dyfed Family History <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 21:27 Subject: Re: [Dyfed] Searching Ancestry and Findmypast Censuses using References. I find it much easier to just go in from the main page, search the name I want, if I think they died in the UK I will use county of birth (if you use county you get no shipping records) and then just look over the results (always using old search, exact) Eliz On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jennifer Cairns <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Listers > > In case this info is useful ...  I suddenly found this evening that both Ancestry and Findmypast changed the mode of access since I last needed to use this search mode. > > To fill in census refs in ANCESTRY and FINDMYPAST > > (and goodness knows why they make it so difficult...) > > > ANCESTRY > > Go into Ancestry. > > Click SEARCH > > Click SEARCH ALL RECORDS > > Click on OLD SEARCH (top right of screen, under HELP] > > Click on UK CENSUS COLLECTION in the right hand column > > And at the bottom of the first dialogue box, near the orange coloured SEARCH button > LO! a line of the boxes for us to fill in the details. > > FINDMYPAST > > Searching Findmypast using Census refs has changed since I last used this... although they give a url on their help pages I couldn't find it on the various menus... It used to be on the Address search pages forms. > > http://www.findmypast.co.uk/referenceSearch.action > > Best wishes > > Jen > > ================================ > Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html > > ------------------------------- > 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