I think it's something to do with the conversion from the LDS data. The 1881, as processed by the LDS, notoriously produced a list of county names omitting the "shire". If you search with "Lincoln*" in the Parish Birthplace rather than County Birthplace field you may find what you're looking for. On 10/18/05, David Tappin <d.tappin@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > Has anyone had problems with searching the 1881 Census on the Ancestry > site > for individuals born in Lincolnshire? > > I have not been able to get any search results for any surname I have > tried > with the additional criteria of born Lincolnshire. Searches without the > county name specified does show that there are of course rather a lot of > individuals that were born in the county. Incidentally, searching without > a > name but just by the birthplace of "Lincolnshire" produces only 10 names. > > I have logged two queries about this problem over the last few months and > get the reply "under investigation". > > I am aware of the other sources of the 1881 census but it is usually more > convenient to try Ancestry particularly if wanting other census years at > the > same time. > > Regards > > David Tappin > > > > > >

Ruth. You are correct! I knew that putting the shortened "Lincoln" into the county field also produced no results but I had not tried putting it into the Parish field. This does then give results for the whole county but there is then no way to further refine down to the parish name. So it is back to switching to the LDS site. Regards. David Tappin d.tappin@ntlworld.com Family Personal Web Pages www.tappin.org.uk Family Genealogy Web Pages http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.tappin -----Original Message----- From: Ruth [mailto:historyscape@gmail.com] Sent: 18 October 2005 18:42 To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SoG] Ancestry - 1881 Census I think it's something to do with the conversion from the LDS data. The 1881, as processed by the LDS, notoriously produced a list of county names omitting the "shire". If you search with "Lincoln*" in the Parish Birthplace rather than County Birthplace field you may find what you're looking for. On 10/18/05, David Tappin <d.tappin@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > Has anyone had problems with searching the 1881 Census on the Ancestry > site for individuals born in Lincolnshire? > > I have not been able to get any search results for any surname I have > tried with the additional criteria of born Lincolnshire. Searches > without the county name specified does show that there are of course > rather a lot of individuals that were born in the county. > Incidentally, searching without a > name but just by the birthplace of "Lincolnshire" produces only 10 names. > > I have logged two queries about this problem over the last few months > and get the reply "under investigation". > > I am aware of the other sources of the 1881 census but it is usually > more convenient to try Ancestry particularly if wanting other census > years at the same time. > > Regards > > David Tappin > > > > > >