Hi John You are most welcome I use Ancestry which has all the available census to 1901, the transcribing can be a tad wavy at times but the search engine usually makes up for it by its flexibility The best advice I can give regarding searching the census is try the criteria that is least likely to change by transcription or misreading I found your man by using Henry born 1851 +/- 1 year born in Buckinghamshire Looking for all in this way you can go through to the M's and see if there is anything similar to MUNDAY, in one case as I mentioned it was MUMDAY, in the other it was MUNDY, this does not always work but often does Henry is not likely to get mistranscribed so much as MUNDAY, likewise the County is less likely to be wrong than the place of birth which is often different anyway. The further from home the person is the more likely they would give a place more recognisable to the enumerator who would not know small villages in another County but may well know Towns Re variants or soundex searching, perhaps in some cases it works but if the name is mistranscribed (generally due to the unreadable writing of the enumerator or condition of the census pages) it may not be picked up with the variants you wish it was :-) I have saved the images for 1871, 81, 91 and 1901 should you want them, just ask If the James and Elizabeth turn out to be the right family, this may be the marriage reg (from the IGI) JAMES MONDAY Father: WILLIAM MONDAY Marriages: Spouse: ELIZABETH MEAD Family Marriage: 26 MAY 1844 Ivinghoe, Buckingham, England M130083 1837 - 1881 1042387 Film 6900190 Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) PS I have a MUNDAY interest myself as my g.g.grandmother was Caroline MUNDAY b1837 Eton but its a bit further South than yours > Nivard, very many thanks for that, brilliant. you must have a > comprehensive > 1871 because I could not find him. > Harriet was from Rugby so it all fits. I shall have to order up his birth > cert to verify his parents, then perhaps I can get a little further back. > I did not think of entering Mumday I must admit, although I thought that > these census dealt with variants? Any secrets please pass on! > > Your help MUCH appreciated > > kind regards > > john

Nivard, priceless advice on searching,you are a kind person. I would like the images if it is not too much trouble. Many thanks John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington1@sky.com> To: <eng-buckinghamshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 8:06 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-Buck] Munday/Monday > Hi John > > You are most welcome > > I use Ancestry which has all the available census to 1901, the > transcribing > can be a tad wavy at times but the search engine usually makes up for it > by > its flexibility > > The best advice I can give regarding searching the census is try the > criteria that is least likely to change by transcription or misreading > > I found your man by using Henry born 1851 +/- 1 year born in > Buckinghamshire > > Looking for all in this way you can go through to the M's and see if there > is anything similar to MUNDAY, in one case as I mentioned it was MUMDAY, > in > the other it was MUNDY, this does not always work but often does > > Henry is not likely to get mistranscribed so much as MUNDAY, likewise the > County is less likely to be wrong than the place of birth which is often > different anyway. The further from home the person is the more likely they > would give a place more recognisable to the enumerator who would not know > small villages in another County but may well know Towns > > Re variants or soundex searching, perhaps in some cases it works but if > the > name is mistranscribed (generally due to the unreadable writing of the > enumerator or condition of the census pages) it may not be picked up with > the variants you wish it was :-) > > I have saved the images for 1871, 81, 91 and 1901 should you want them, > just > ask > > If the James and Elizabeth turn out to be the right family, this may be > the > marriage reg (from the IGI) > > JAMES MONDAY > Father: WILLIAM MONDAY > > Marriages: > Spouse: ELIZABETH MEAD Family > Marriage: 26 MAY 1844 Ivinghoe, Buckingham, England > > M130083 1837 - 1881 1042387 Film 6900190 > > > Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > > PS I have a MUNDAY interest myself as my g.g.grandmother was Caroline > MUNDAY > b1837 Eton but its a bit further South than yours > > > >> Nivard, very many thanks for that, brilliant. you must have a >> comprehensive >> 1871 because I could not find him. >> Harriet was from Rugby so it all fits. I shall have to order up his birth >> cert to verify his parents, then perhaps I can get a little further back. >> I did not think of entering Mumday I must admit, although I thought that >> these census dealt with variants? Any secrets please pass on! >> >> Your help MUCH appreciated >> >> kind regards >> >> john > > _____________________________________________ > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: > ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message