Comments on: 1911 Census images online today

By: Len

Len — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:23:56 +0000

Geoff there are errors and some of the districts are miss numbered. There are lots of transcription errors in the index and the madding thing is we can not fix them as only the name can be flaged as wrong.

By: GeoffRoberts1949

GeoffRoberts1949 — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:21:16 +0000

Hi, great stuff for the 1911 census – thank you. are all sections scanned at the moment or is the work still ongoing, reason for asking is I am trying to locate a “Mrs Roberts” who in the census books shows she lived at 30 Alfred Street, Bristol, showing as sub reg district of 2 and Enumeration District of 8 .. her household schedule is reportedly 346, however the scanned census records only go up to schedule 209 for ED 8 ? ..

By: sandra

sandra — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:23:04 +0000

Hi, what happens when your ancestor is not on the summery books, l have started with a brother of my grandfather and browsing in the area that he lives hopeing my grandfather lived nearby but after 3000 families and 4 enm dist still nothing, if anybody sees a Francis Travi please let me know and in the meantime will keep going, Francis Travi was in london at that time as my mother born 2 years later and her 4 brothers before 1911.This name have been transcibed wrong on other census also. thanks.

By: Len

Len — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:00:50 +0000

I do feel that the summary books would have been a lot better if a simple quality check had been run over them before release. They seem to have been taken straight from the transcribers as complete. The errors I have seen would be clear to anybody with basic english. Some are simple keyboard finger interface errors (2 keys hit at the same time for example). Others are clearly poor quality as a family name can change halfway through. If I was paying for the work I would be a lot more critical.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:09:37 +0000

Why does it appear that there are so many records missing from Wales? 1911 Summary book shows my Grandfather living in the Civil Parish of Aberavon, Yet there are no records that I can find for Aberavon in the actuls census forms? There is no cilvil parish for Aberavon listed at all

By: PatBridgwater11

PatBridgwater11 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:13:02 +0000

Thank you Sarah, Paul and BroMaelor for your additional comments. I’m sorry if I didn’t make it clear in my earlier post that I thought Dudley was missing from the Census Summary Books, not the scanned census images. I have reported this to Ancestry and hope they will look into it.
Regards, Pat

By: BroMaelor

BroMaelor — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:15:42 +0000

Pat. Sorry, I see now that you were looking for Dudley in the Summary Books! I agree, they seem to be missing. It’s the actually census page images that appear under Staffordshire.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:35:04 +0000

I agree with Pat, yes there are many transcription errors in the census summary books…more than I would have expected…however I also checked FindMyPast, and they are not much better.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 31 May 2011 17:41:59 +0000

Hi Pat

Glad to hear it has helped you out.

I was trying to find someone in Cumberland and it didn’t work there BUT I subtracted the doubled number and deducted it from the total number of images you have to scroll through and bingo there it was. For others where it hasn’t worked that could be an option to try

Sarah

By: PatBridgwater11

PatBridgwater11 — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:52:51 +0000

Thanks BroMaelor but I was looking in Staffordshire. I did try Worcestershire too, just in case, but no Dudley results in either county.

Pat