Jenny De Angelis wrote: > Not free of charge at all. > > All that is on the familysearch pilot site, at present, is an index to the > 1841 and 1861 censuses. > > Once you find the person you are looking for in that index and click on > their name to bring up further details, which are very sparse, you will see > on that page in the top right corner a link for the image which tells you > that the image is available through findmypast and you can click on that > image to be taken to the findmypast site, so not free at all. > > Findmypast is one of the sites licensed by the National Archives to have > images of the English & Welsh censuses on their sites and those licensed > sites are all pay sites. Yes, I see what you mean. Other than the obvious paucity of information immediately availablefrom the search, it's not much different to their original presentation of the 1881 census. Not a great deal of use in reality for those of us that have to pay in Sterling at the Rand conversion rate. Not worth all the Brou-ha-ha! -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg.