Diana The answer is 'yes'! Go the census you wish to see. Scroll down to the very bottom of the page for this census without entering any details (many people do not bother to scroll so miss a trick). You will find a list of counties. Click on the one you want. Then up comes a list of parishes. Click on yours. You now have a short list of enumeration districts. Click on 'view description' to find a description of the enumerator's walk - these can be difficult to interpret as we seldom know the geography in enough detail, and places have changed. When you have the one that best fits your needs, go back a page and click on the District number which will bring up ALL the pages for that ED. You then methodically search through preferably with a good map (or oldmaps.com) to hand until you have fathomed out the 19th century geography of the census. Great fun and very rewarding. The number of EDs varies a little from census to census, but I have found that if a location is ED 3 in one census it is most likely to be, but not always, the same in another. In towns the complexity is much greater, but I have with patience made successful searches. Of course this is also useful for house searches for house history, or who followed or preceded you ancestors in a property. When searching through villages with no addresses some nimble thinking outside the box can make it possible to find a location. for example in Adlestrop Gloucestershire I once worked out the cottage my ancestor lived in on a visit because I had noted in succeeding censuses that his address, unnamed, was between the vicarage and the schoolmaster. On my visit the vicarage was easy, and 'The Old School House' was a current address! Bingo! Good hunting Roger Nash -----Original Message----- From: sfhg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sfhg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Diana Mungall Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 11:24 AM To: SFHG-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SFHG] 1851 census Does anyone know whether Ancestry.com has a facility for allowing one to see the initial page of a census record, where there is a description of the enumeration district? I am trying to locate the whereabouts of an ancestor's home by the features and streets identified by the enumerator and it is not proving easy. Diana _________________________________________________________________ Play and win great prizes with Live Search and Kung Fu Panda http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/101719966/direct/01/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message