Comments on: London Historic Property Prices Revealed Online http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/2011/01/12/london-historic-property-prices-revealed-online/ The official Ancestry.co.uk blog Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Kate Rimmer http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/2011/01/12/london-historic-property-prices-revealed-online/#comment-768 Kate Rimmer Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:47:07 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/?p=1541#comment-768 It should be pointed out that this database only includes the City of London (i.e. the business district) and Paddington, so the vast majority of people who lived in London are not included. I found entries for my 2xg-grandfather but that is just because his company had offices in the City. The adverts for this database on ancestry's front page are extremely misleading as they imply that it covers the whole of London. The current data comes from The National Archives' collection reference IR91. I hope ancestry are planning to extend the database to include the rest of London, which is in collection reference IR58 at The National Archives. I'm sure it would be much more popular with the World Archives Project keyers than this project was as we would be keying details of ordinary residents rather than companies. It should be pointed out that this database only includes the City of London (i.e. the business district) and Paddington, so the vast majority of people who lived in London are not included.

I found entries for my 2xg-grandfather but that is just because his company had offices in the City.

The adverts for this database on ancestry’s front page are extremely misleading as they imply that it covers the whole of London.

The current data comes from The National Archives’ collection reference IR91. I hope ancestry are planning to extend the database to include the rest of London, which is in collection reference IR58 at The National Archives. I’m sure it would be much more popular with the World Archives Project keyers than this project was as we would be keying details of ordinary residents rather than companies.

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