A lot of this site looks like it was made up from the 2% index of the 1851 census that was made available on the web. The information can be seen for free by downloading it from http://w3g.med.uni-giessen.de/CGB/genetxt/ mjc wrote: > Hi all, esp. 'Cousin by Marriage' Mary Beth > > This copyright debate has been interesting... when you consider how our > gggggrand parents funded the research in the first place, then the > following generations paid the salaries of the civil servants who > maintained the 'paper' --- and then someone can come along and get the > copyright permission (and just what does that entail?) > > Anyway, the discussion triggered memory of a website I came across... so > I searched my hundreds of book marks (can you ever have enough?) and > behold -- U.K. Census (mainly 1851) > > Of course it's not free... (and may not be legal???) > > And sorry Mary Beth... no Hurray (but there was a Corrigall that was on > the pauper list) > > --------------------------------------- > > http://rontay.digiweb.com/ > > Ron Taylor's UK Census Finding Aids and Ron Taylor's UK Census Finding > Aids and Indexes > Indexes to over 2.2 million names from the U.K. Census (mainly 1851) > > Data Available by County > > COUNTY----- DATA FROM ----- APPROX# NAMES > > ORKNEY - Kirkwall, Shapinshay, Westray- 1,720 > > ---------------------------------------------- > > mj corrigall