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hlbradd
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1861 Middx census - Berkshire?
« on: Saturday 30 April 05 09:32 BST (UK) »
Hi

Saw this on another list and thought it might help if you can't find your ancestors in 1861 on Ancestry.

"Take care!!!
The whole of the County of Middlesex (outside of Greater London) has
been filed as Berkshire!!!"

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Berks! Tongue

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Re: 1861 Middx census - Berkshire?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 03 May 05 11:38 BST (UK) »
and I notice a lot of Surrey parishes have been placed in Kent !
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Re: 1861 Middx census - Berkshire?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 07 May 05 14:11 BST (UK) »
Actually, most of Middlesex appears ok - but the registration districts of Barnet and Edmonton (at least) have been indexed under Berkshire.

This seems to be because for 1861, these two RDs have high out-of-sequence piece numbers - in high 700's, while most of Middlesex runs from 000's to 100's. Other 700's are in Berkshire.

I have informed Ancestry and pointed out what the problem is (that they don't seem to have allowed for out-of-sequence piece numbers) - and that the problem probably affects various RDs in other counties. However (strangely) they have got all those notorious "Welsh" pieces in Herefordshire right!

Apart from this glitch, I'm really surprised at how good the indexing is in general! Have found lots of AWOL ancestors already... using "less is more" principle when searching...

Steve
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