Possibly the best laptop, or maybe they opened it, or maybe I was doing it wrong. Either way I've just done a search on the first name and place, nothing in the surname field, and it came up trumps. Though I think the 2/3/4 change in the url has been stopped - as I never used that, I cannot test it! Good stuff. JK On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM, jan rockett <janbennett60@msn.com> wrote: > Can I assume that the wildcard search everyone is talking about is the one > where you dont insrt a surname and replace it with a full stop or comma etc? > I have just tested it and if you put the christian name and place of birth, > county or town etc it works without anything in the surname space. > Do I have the best laptop in the country or has it been openned up for us? > > Jan > > > > > > > > >> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:17:20 +0000 >> From: gen2mail@googlemail.com >> To: nottsgen@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [NTT] 1911 Census Searches No Longer Available >> >> Last September I asked the TNA this question, their answer is below: >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~ >> thank you for contacting The National Archives. >> >> BrightSolid will be the sole online provider of the 1911 census >> through findmypast.com for a period of 6 months from the final content >> launch in 2009. The census will launch in 3 tranches - England, Wales >> and Ships and Islands. Once the complete census has been operating >> successfully for 6 months, The National Archives will deem the >> contract to be fulfilled, and the digital images will be deposited >> here for re-sale and re-licensing to other providers. >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> I wouldn't like to second guess who will decide (nor when) the FMP >> version has been "operating successfully for 6 months", but TNA should >> then be able to offer the images to ancestry et al. New indexes will >> of course have to be done, as the FMP ones are copyright to them. >> >> If anyone is going to WDYTYA this year, maybe a question to TNA and >> Ancestry might elicit more detail. It might also be worth pointing out >> to TNA that the current indexing leaves a lot to be desired. Wonder >> where FMP get their 98.5% figure from? Certainly not those transcripts >> I've bought nor even the search results I've seen. >> JK - in a very wet, chilly, and miserable looking London! >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Jan Holmes <tigerjan775@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > I asked at the WDYTYA in London last year. The person at the Ancestry >> > stand didn't seem too sure, but said they were concentrating on other >> > things. I doubt if it will be before 2011. >> > >> > Jan> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:57:45 +0000> From: jochakram@yahoo.co.uk> >> > To: nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com; ENG-LINCSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: [NTT] >> > 1911 Census Searches No Longer Available> >> > Hi All, >> > Just to let you know that the very useful address search (finding the >> > persons name, then changing the 4 in the URL bar to 3 to find the address) >> > no longer works on the 1911 census. >> > Neither does the , (comma) wildcard in the name search. >> > Anybody have ANY idea when 1911 census will come onto Ancestry? I can't >> > afford the exorbitant search charges the the 1911 website asks for. >> > I don't normally post much, but I'm SOOO cross at the moment!! >> > Jo in sunny Cyprus> > >
Yes, you can still do that, but you used to be able to do a search with the names all clear except for a comma in the last name section, and with an address, and you would get ALL the people living at that address. Very useful if you didn't know the surname, or if you wanted to see who else was living with your ancestors. You can't do that now. Ah well, guess I'll just have to wait till Ancestry get it! Kind regards, Jo --- On Thu, 5/2/09, J K gen <gen2mail@googlemail.com> wrote: From: J K gen <gen2mail@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: [NTT] 1911 Census Searches No Longer Available To: "jan rockett" <janbennett60@msn.com> Cc: "notts group" <nottsgen@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, 5 February, 2009, 11:07 PM Possibly the best laptop, or maybe they opened it, or maybe I was doing it wrong. Either way I've just done a search on the first name and place, nothing in the surname field, and it came up trumps. Though I think the 2/3/4 change in the url has been stopped - as I never used that, I cannot test it! Good stuff. JK On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM, jan rockett <janbennett60@msn.com> wrote: > Can I assume that the wildcard search everyone is talking about is the one > where you dont insrt a surname and replace it with a full stop or comma etc? > I have just tested it and if you put the christian name and place of birth, > county or town etc it works without anything in the surname space. > Do I have the best laptop in the country or has it been openned up for us? > > Jan > > > > > > > > >> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:17:20 +0000 >> From: gen2mail@googlemail.com >> To: nottsgen@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [NTT] 1911 Census Searches No Longer Available >> >> Last September I asked the TNA this question, their answer is below: >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~ >> thank you for contacting The National Archives. >> >> BrightSolid will be the sole online provider of the 1911 census >> through findmypast.com for a period of 6 months from the final content >> launch in 2009. The census will launch in 3 tranches - England, Wales >> and Ships and Islands. Once the complete census has been operating >> successfully for 6 months, The National Archives will deem the >> contract to be fulfilled, and the digital images will be deposited >> here for re-sale and re-licensing to other providers. >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> I wouldn't like to second guess who will decide (nor when) the FMP >> version has been "operating successfully for 6 months", but TNA should >> then be able to offer the images to ancestry et al. New indexes will >> of course have to be done, as the FMP ones are copyright to them. >> >> If anyone is going to WDYTYA this year, maybe a question to TNA and >> Ancestry might elicit more detail. It might also be worth pointing out >> to TNA that the current indexing leaves a lot to be desired. Wonder >> where FMP get their 98.5% figure from? Certainly not those transcripts >> I've bought nor even the search results I've seen. >> JK - in a very wet, chilly, and miserable looking London! >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Jan Holmes <tigerjan775@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > I asked at the WDYTYA in London last year. The person at the Ancestry >> > stand didn't seem too sure, but said they were concentrating on other >> > things. I doubt if it will be before 2011. >> > >> > Jan> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:57:45 +0000> From: jochakram@yahoo.co.uk> >> > To: nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com; ENG-LINCSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: [NTT] >> > 1911 Census Searches No Longer Available> >> > Hi All, >> > Just to let you know that the very useful address search (finding the >> > persons name, then changing the 4 in the URL bar to 3 to find the address) >> > no longer works on the 1911 census. >> > Neither does the , (comma) wildcard in the name search. >> > Anybody have ANY idea when 1911 census will come onto Ancestry? I can't >> > afford the exorbitant search charges the the 1911 website asks for. >> > I don't normally post much, but I'm SOOO cross at the moment!! >> > Jo in sunny Cyprus> > > Notts Surname List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
I think they openned it as I had been doing the full stop method in the surname box..whooppee Jan > Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:07:17 +0000> Subject: Re: [NTT] 1911 Census Searches No Longer Available> From: gen2mail@googlemail.com> To: janbennett60@msn.com> CC: nottsgen@rootsweb.com> > Possibly the best laptop, or maybe they opened it, or maybe I was> doing it wrong. Either way I've just done a search on the first name> and place, nothing in the surname field, and it came up trumps. Though> I think the 2/3/4 change in the url has been stopped - as I never used> that, I cannot test it!> > Good stuff.> JK> > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM, jan rockett <janbennett60@msn.com> wrote:> > Can I assume that the wildcard search everyone is talking about is the one> > where you dont insrt a surname and replace it with a full stop or comma etc?> > I have just tested it and if you put the christian name and place of birth,> > county or town etc it works without anything in the surname space.> > Do I have the best laptop in the country or has it been openned up for us?> >> > Jan> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:17:20 +0000> >> From: gen2mail@googlemail.com> >> To: nottsgen@rootsweb.com> >> Subject: Re: [NTT] 1911 Census Searches No Longer Available> >>> >> Last September I asked the TNA this question, their answer is below:> >>> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~> >> thank you for contacting The National Archives.> >>> >> BrightSolid will be the sole online provider of the 1911 census> >> through findmypast.com for a period of 6 months from the final content> >> launch in 2009. The census will launch in 3 tranches - England, Wales> >> and Ships and Islands. Once the complete census has been operating> >> successfully for 6 months, The National Archives will deem the> >> contract to be fulfilled, and the digital images will be deposited> >> here for re-sale and re-licensing to other providers.> >>> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~> >>> >> I wouldn't like to second guess who will decide (nor when) the FMP> >> version has been "operating successfully for 6 months", but TNA should> >> then be able to offer the images to ancestry et al. New indexes will> >> of course have to be done, as the FMP ones are copyright to them.> >>> >> If anyone is going to WDYTYA this year, maybe a question to TNA and> >> Ancestry might elicit more detail. It might also be worth pointing out> >> to TNA that the current indexing leaves a lot to be desired. Wonder> >> where FMP get their 98.5% figure from? Certainly not those transcripts> >> I've bought nor even the search results I've seen.> >> JK - in a very wet, chilly, and miserable looking London!> >>> >>> >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Jan Holmes <tigerjan775@hotmail.com>> >> wrote:> >> >> >> > I asked at the WDYTYA in London last year. The person at the Ancestry> >> > stand didn't seem too sure, but said they were concentrating on other> >> > things. I doubt if it will be before 2011.> >> >> >> > Jan> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:57:45 +0000> From: jochakram@yahoo.co.uk>> >> > To: nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com; ENG-LINCSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: [NTT]> >> > 1911 Census Searches No Longer Available>> >> > Hi All,> >> > Just to let you know that the very useful address search (finding the> >> > persons name, then changing the 4 in the URL bar to 3 to find the address)> >> > no longer works on the 1911 census.> >> > Neither does the , (comma) wildcard in the name search.> >> > Anybody have ANY idea when 1911 census will come onto Ancestry? I can't> >> > afford the exorbitant search charges the the 1911 website asks for.> >> > I don't normally post much, but I'm SOOO cross at the moment!!> >> > Jo in sunny Cyprus> > > _________________________________________________________________ Twice the fun—Share photos while you chat with Windows Live Messenger. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/windowslive/products/messenger.aspx