Comments on: Our Biggest Announcement of the year (Part 2)

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:54:00 +0000

Great news re release of the 1911 census. Will look forward immensely to that! One question – and forgive my ignorance here – but what do people mean when they refer to the “Library version of Ancestry”

By: Prairie Girl

Prairie Girl — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:34:42 +0000

As mentioned but not replied to – when will Ancestry introduce address searching to your census returns?

By: aussiekate

aussiekate — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:22:10 +0000

Will the census returns show the end column that is covered at the moment about the disabilities?

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By: Dan Jones

Dan Jones — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:18:04 +0000

Hi all – we are indexing the Enumerator Summary Books which are head of household returns.

We are using images supplied by TNA but are re-indexing the series from scratch.

The records will be available on the Library version of Ancestry.

We appreciate that our UK National Probate Calendar is an important resource for you, and we are working hard to correct transcription errors. However, this is a database fix and therefore doesn’t impact on new content production like 1911.

Thanks all for your comments.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:34:24 +0000

This is fantastic news! It will save me so much money as I’ve been coughing up £30 every three months to ‘the competition’. I’m a great fan of ‘ancestry.co.uk’ and have found out shedloads of information so far. This will really enhance your site and put you ahead of the game. Many thanks!

By: judy

judy — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:22:22 +0000

although i was able to move my tree several years for 7 of my great grand parents with out too much difficulty fairly quickly, i had a brick wall with the last one. she being unmarried to her partner who she did not met until after the 1901 census. with her death at age 50 in 1923 some 76 years before i started my foray into family history and with both my grandparents dead meant i only had her name from her children’s birth certs. of course as is the way with brick walls in genealogy there were several candidates. this meant i needed to either stop and search each one and buy relevant bmd which i could not afford anyway, or wait until the census appeared for either 1911 or 1922. my only two chances to get much needed info. with the arrivel of the 1911 i finally found the much needed info saving me a vast amount of money and time. within a couple of days i had moved back several generations. the only draw back i had to pay extra to another provider to get the info. but now with the 1911 coming to ancestry i look forward to find others in other parts of my tree, and more importantly check my research against the entries at no extra cost. THANKYOU

By: Penny Holt

Penny Holt — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 18:11:53 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with Boo. Please, please, pretty please finish the National Probate Calendar. What’s the hold up, anyway?

By: Boo

Boo — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:31:30 +0000

Good news, but as the announcement opens with referring to the National Probate Calandar , maybe it would be good to get that right before releasing anything else?
As has been reported numerous times, there are many, many pages from the Probate Calendar that have not been transcribed / uploaded (see 1930 names beginning with R & S for example, where only every other page has been done) I have been told by ancestry that it will take ‘months’ to get round to rectifying it, despite the fact that lots of customers paid extra to access it.

By: Ron Lankshear

Ron Lankshear — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 01:51:13 +0000

Personally I thought the release just recently of a Name Index of LMA from 1538 was BIG. I have lots of people to research now.
A name index to the Poor law records would be good!!!

Can we look forward to more Parish Registers in other places?