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    1. 1901 Census
    2. Colin Harris
    3. Hello All Something that may assist some of you in making sense of the search results you obtain from the 1901 census. I'm not sure if it will work for you but what I do is 1. Copy the whole web page to the clipboard and then paste it into an Excel spreadsheet, I carry on copying all the pages until I have the lot, the limit on the search seems to be 300 hits as far as I can tell so you may need to be imaginative in your searches if you get too many. 2.I then tidy up the formatting and delete all the extraneous rubbish that has been copied, you should end up with a blank column headed "Image" as the first column. 3. Now the clever bit, in Excel (don't know if this works in other programs) you hover the mouse over the persons name and up pops the URL for that persons record, the last part of which is a unique numeric identifier which I then type into the "Image" column. Once they are all typed in it is just a question of sorting on the first column and they will then be in family group order. Of course you don't know the relationships but in most cases they should be obvious. I think it may be possible to refine this even further by using the advanced person search but I haven't investigated this yet, I do know that advanced searches allow you to look for Heads and Wives so it should not be too difficult to include this information as well in the spread sheet. This came from a tip that I think Guy Etchell's posted on one of the other lists. Feel free to pass this on to others as you see fit. Regards Colin Harris Yeading, Middlesex Researching IVE GIRDLER/GURDLER HARRIS - Oxfordshire HARVEY - Dorset

    09/01/2002 01:38:26