From: Lin Duke <dml5481@hotmail.com> > > I'm confused. > > >From Roy's Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History > > ..... Indeed, lookup requests for all the censuses except 1881 and > 1901 are normally only acceptable if you know an address, unless a > member of the list has access to a surname index for the particular > area. > > > Lin> My Newbies' Guide is admittedly now seriously out of date and is in urgent need of updating (when I can get round to it given all my other work). I think it was written before the censuses went online and that particularly section definitely needs an update. I was referring to when census indexes were only available in booklets at the FRC and similar places. The entire situation has altered over the last few years and if I can ever get round to rewriting it I will certainly state my view that asking for lookups and/or to be sent images from subscription websites is not on. The entire thrust of genealogical research has been revolutionised so much since outfits like Ancestry, Findmypast and TheGenealogist came on the scene that we are living in a different world and something written 10 years ago, or whenever it was, is no longer relevant. That's why family history books are out of date the moment they're published! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE