>From: Parfittmargaret@aol.com >Reply-To: SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >To: SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [SCT~ROOTS] Accessing the 1901 census >Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 05:46:53 EST >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from [63.92.80.123] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailBE2E49DE00AC400431E03F5C507B0E310; Sat, 09 Feb 2002 02:50:10 -0800 >Received: (from slist@localhost)by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id >g19Al1V12742;Sat, 9 Feb 2002 03:47:01 -0700 >From SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com Sat, 09 Feb 2002 02:52:21 -0800 >Resent-Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 03:47:01 -0700 >X-Original-Sender: Parfittmargaret@aol.com Sat Feb 9 03:47:01 2002 >Message-ID: <158.8a5285b.2996581d@aol.com> >Old-To: scotland-roots-l@rootsweb.com >X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows UK sub 10510 >Resent-Message-ID: <abx1MD.A.4GD.l4PZ8@lists5.rootsweb.com> >Resent-From: SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/278 >X-Loop: SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com >Hi Margaret, I can help you out there. I have personally made about 8 trips to the Scots Origins website. I have enjoyed each and every one of them. Each time I go I have found out significant amounts of worthwhile info. It is far and away the fastest and most economical method I have found so far. I originally shied away from it because I thought it would be too difficult or expensive to use. I have found to my delight that the opposite is the case. It cost £6.00 to use the database for a 24 hour session. I have found that the best way to do this is to log on in late afternoon or early evening. That way you get two bites of the cherry as it were. You get the 5-11 pm of the first day and afternoon and evening of the second day as well. That way you can go to work and still have time to access the database. I find two evenings is all I need. You could of course log on at the weekends. The time does run out so you are best preparing any time consuming research chores before hand, so you are not using up valuable site time. The £6.00 buys you 30 page credits. Each page can contain 15 births, or deaths or marriages. So theoretically you could download 450 individual records. In practice it worked out at less than that, but that was partly due to my uncommon surname. The most economical time period to search is the pre-1891 recources. The 1881 census info is the nearest thing to a free lunch on the site. The seach engine has been overhauled and is much better than it was originally. The 1881 census allows you to download a page that contains a an entire household. It is not a scanned page of an actual census but it does only cost one credit.(20p) The 1891 and 1901 census returns do cost more to search but you do get the actual scanned page to download. Each census image from the 1891 and 1901 census cost 5 credits to download (£1.00). You have to be more careful with the later census's obviously. This is still far cheaper than the £2.50 I have seen quoted by people who have been to Register House who had photocopies done of census pages. I would use the pre-1891 resources available to the max to build up a framework and then use this knowledge to decide what you next target should be. I have no knowledge of the English 1901 census so I can't speak about that. I would love to hear other users experience. Grant Muckart Nairn Scotland >Hi, >Could anyone help me understand how to access the 1901 census on-line both >for Scotland and for the rest of the UK? What does use of the census >on-line >cost? I have heard such conflicting information and decided fellow listers >would be able to give me much more accurate information. >Best regards, Margaret, Aberdeen > > >==== SCOTLAND-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >If you would like to be removed from this part of the list, send a message >to the following address: >SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com >Put the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotation marks) in the >subject line of the message; >ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER TEXT IS TO BE INCLUDED ANYWHERE IN YOUR MESSAGE. >If you don't follow these instructions, you will never be removed from this >list. > GRANT _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx