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Family Search - 1881 Census for U.K. - Completed.
« on: Thursday 28 October 10 18:54 BST (UK) »
I have the full 1881 Census for England, Scotland & Wales etc. and cannot seem to be able to use it with Windows 7.  Would someone please let me know if this is an impossible fit??  Any comments will be appreciated.  Thank you.
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Camlachie, Bridgetton Brown in Cadder, Ferguson/
Davis in Edinburgh & Glasgow. 1800 to present.

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Re: Family Search - 1881 Census for U.K.
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 28 October 10 20:27 BST (UK) »
Do you mean you have it on CD ?

If you are having problems with it you can view it for free on Ancestry.co.uk:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=7572

I think you need an account though.
Bloomfield, Knights, Whitmore, Warner (Suffolk)
Hamlin (London, Yorkshire, Scotland, Suffolk)
Mattocks, Newick, Nutter, (Kent)
Mattocks (Staffs)

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Re: Family Search - 1881 Census for U.K.
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 28 October 10 21:05 BST (UK) »
I've seen queries about this before (trying to find the answers), but I seem to recall that it will work with the 32 bit version of Windows 7, but not 64-bit.  Do you know which version you have?

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« Reply #3 on: Thursday 28 October 10 21:09 BST (UK) »
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Re: Family Search - 1881 Census for U.K.
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 28 October 10 23:44 BST (UK) »
I have the full 1841 cen. & that ran ok on my W7 64bit.Have you tried running it as administrator?
Have you tried the compatability tool?

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Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: Family Search - 1881 Census for U.K.
« Reply #5 on: Friday 29 October 10 00:24 BST (UK) »
I have also tried running the 1881 Census and BVRI on Windows 7 (64 bit - Ultimate). Even when trying Windows XP (or 95 and 98) compatability mode or as administrator it won't run. Gives the following error:

For BVRI: -
Run-time error '-214.............':
Automation error
Unspecified error

For 1881 Census:
Run-time error 5

No problem installing the Viewer (4.0) and adding the Resource Files. However, the files simply won't run.

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Essex - Burrell, Thorogood
Norfolk - Alcock, Bowen, Bowers, Breeze, Burton, Creamer, Hammond, Sparkes, Wakefield, Wiggett
North Devon - Burgess, Chalacombe, Collacott, Goss
Northamptonshire - George, Letts, Muscutt, Richardson
Somerset - Barber
Wiltshire - Brine, Burges, Carey, Gray, Lywood, Musselwhite, Perris, Read, Turner, Wilkins

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Re: Family Search - 1881 Census for U.K.
« Reply #6 on: Friday 29 October 10 09:35 BST (UK) »
I haven't tried this myself as I don't have the error. It might be wort a look. Not sure about windows 7.

How to fix run time error 214.

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http://www.registryquick.net/runtime/Fix-Runtime-error-214-How-to-Fix-Runtime-error-214-71377.html
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Hambling. Mexter. Taylor. Bailey. Bolton. Boyse. Davenport. Fisher. Godfrey. Goff. Hawkins. Holmes. Jarvis. Joseph. Leek. Morgan. Osborne. Ross. Sharp. Webber.

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Re: Family Search - 1881 Census for U.K.
« Reply #7 on: Friday 29 October 10 18:51 BST (UK) »
Sincere thanks to everyone who replied to this query.  I have no problem installing the viewer but that is as far as I can get.  I will try some of the suggestions, but unfortunately do not have the computer smarts to go too far.  I have a feeling that this is probably not worth the bother.  Before Windows 7 I had Windows 2000 and it worked fine, also on 98 which I had when it was first purchased.  Thanks again.
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Camlachie, Bridgetton Brown in Cadder, Ferguson/
Davis in Edinburgh & Glasgow. 1800 to present.

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Re: Family Search - 1881 Census for U.K.
« Reply #8 on: Friday 29 October 10 19:05 BST (UK) »
Although the viewer will install and even allow you to install the census and BVRI links neither will run properly under Windows 7 64 bit (they will run with no problem on the 32 bit version of Windows 7.

If you still have the installation disc for an  older copy of windows, you mentioned Windows 98, it is possible to install a virtual machine and run the 1881 census viewer and bvri viewer on that with no problems. The set up is extremely simple

The image shows 98 and Xp running in different windows on a Windows 7 64 bit machine
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