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By: Len

Len — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:43:11 +0000

It is not that it should take a long time, that is understandable. It is that you gave the impression in Dec 2010 that it would be avalible very quickly in 2011. Us gullable customers thought it was ready to roll out.

By: Annabel Bernhardt

Annabel Bernhardt — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:44:14 +0000

We appreciate that you want to see the 1911 Census on Ancestry as soon as possible, as do we, but we are still in the process of digitizing and transcribing 15 million images and 35 million records and at this point in time simply do not know exact timings.

This process is extremely complex and a collection of this size would usually take around two years to digitize and transcribe, but we’re doubling our efforts with the objective of making the whole collection available by the end of this year.

We will continue to keep our members fully updated until the complete census is available on Ancestry.co.uk.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:09:17 +0000

I suppose the marketing department decided that something of the 1911 census had to be released ASAP, but really the situation for the coming year is that if you want any useful information from the 1911 census you still need to subscribe to another site as well as Ancestry. The summary books are not very useful.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:39:46 +0000

It’s just typical for people who pay for a service to moan and complain and threaten to take their business elsewhere when that service doesnt do EXACTLY what they want it to. What really bugs me is that everyone expects access to the 1911 census on ancestry EXACTLY 6 months to the day after BrightSolid exclusive rights have expired and it really doesn’t work like that. We have to consider all the work that goes into bringing the census to us and that I’m sure that Ancestry are doing all they can to get it to us as soon as possible, so lets all be patient, remember that word patience?

By: David

David — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:30:48 +0000

This is a message to Ancestry.
Considering the number of comments so far about the shambles that has made when transcribing the 1911 Enumerators’ Books I would have expected a response from Ancestry by now. Are you interested or are we all wasting our time?
Dave

By: bromaelor

bromaelor — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:18:16 +0000

Owen, what irritates me even more is that, when obvious mistakes do occur and are corrected (freely!) by many Ancestry subscribers, those corrections are regarded by Ancestry as ‘alternatives’ and given little credibility. Alternatives to what, ignorance and incompetence???

By: Frank Golby

Frank Golby — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:49:22 +0000

The Ancestry Website blub advertising the 1911 census states::”This database holds census books for the year 1911 in England. Available information includes address, given name, surname, number of people in the household and their relationship to the head of the family, marital status, age, gender, occupation, etc.”
Anyone foolish enough to spend money gaining access to what’s on offer will quickly realise that it falls well short of the description, perhaps to the point of being fraudulent.
I strongly recommend giving Ancestry a wide berth until they learn to respect their customers and behave in a professional and honest manner.