On Tuesday 13 January 2009 14:26:22 Dorothy Spence wrote: > ............I have had a happy day searching it with success, but am > horrified as onvirtually every page I purchased there were major errors... > there is afacility for reporting them... so far I have made about ten > reports.There are going to be some very frustrated and unhappy searchers I > think.My Macaulays became McCanleys, Hunns became Hulmes, my thirty year > oldGrandad became 50 years old. Some of the errors wereunforgivable as the > census entrys were extremely clear..... Hi all, After my disappointment at the inflated prices they are charging*, the news that the quality of the transcriptions and indexes isn't very good just leaves a bitter taste. * 4.5x the launch prices for the 1901 with Qinetic. Images in the 1901 census were 75p, in the 1911 they are £3.50 each and that's even with information obscured. Guess I'll vote with my feet and either spend a few days in London, or wait for some competition to come along in a year or two. (Ancestry, GS?) -- Stuart Morgan

It's worth keeping an eye on this page http://blog.1911census.co.uk/ as this is where they are posting official information about the site. They have disabled many of the search functions until they are happy that the site is going to cope with the amount of traffic (See about half way down the blog) My particular grouse, at the moment, is that there is no way of searching for anyone with a hyphenated surname. If you enter two names separated by a hyphen in the surname field, the search engine removes the hyphen and so doesn't find a match with the transcriptions. Obviously, once the search allows parts of a surname or a wildcard then I'll be able to carry out the search. I'll just have to be patient, but it's frustrating when both my, and my husband's, mothers have double barrelled surnames. Patience is a virtue!!! Kate in Devon, UK

I am pleased I am not the only one with a gripe about the cost of the 1911 census. But be warned, it is not just transcription errors you have to contend with, the number of typos is horrific. Obviously no double keying checks have been made. Just some examples from my research in the short time the census has been available Tohmas for Thomas Edtih for Edith Willaim for William Williams for William S Calara for Clara Arthu for Arthur Henrys for Henry S Ch STCHELL for Chrystchell So if you are looking for Knight - also try swapping some of the letters around!!! Kinght, Knihgt etc. Regards Sandra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Morgan" <stuart@tase.co.uk> To: <eng-hampshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] 1911 census - help with lateral thinking! On Tuesday 13 January 2009 14:26:22 Dorothy Spence wrote: > ............I have had a happy day searching it with success, but am > horrified as onvirtually every page I purchased there were major errors... > there is afacility for reporting them... so far I have made about ten > reports.There are going to be some very frustrated and unhappy searchers > I > think.My Macaulays became McCanleys, Hunns became Hulmes, my thirty year > oldGrandad became 50 years old. Some of the errors wereunforgivable as the > census entrys were extremely clear..... Hi all, After my disappointment at the inflated prices they are charging*, the news that the quality of the transcriptions and indexes isn't very good just leaves a bitter taste. * 4.5x the launch prices for the 1901 with Qinetic. Images in the 1901 census were 75p, in the 1911 they are £3.50 each and that's even with information obscured. Guess I'll vote with my feet and either spend a few days in London, or wait for some competition to come along in a year or two. (Ancestry, GS?) -- Stuart Morgan ............................................. Want to contact the local community? Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk ............................................. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-HAMPSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _______________________________________ No viruses found in this incoming message Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.6.3 http://www.iolo.com _______________________________________ No viruses found in this outgoing message Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.6.3 http://www.iolo.com