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Census Lookups General Lookups => Census and Resource Discussion => Topic started by: bugbear on Wednesday 09 August 17 12:06 BST (UK)
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When attempting to find a "tricky" census record, it can be useful
to use multiple sites, since the transcriptions (and transcription errors)
vary.
Does anyone know how many sites host census data, and how many
of them have their own transcriptions (and, for extra points, which
ones share transcriptions)?
BugBear
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Familysearch did the 1881 - same transcript possibly available on all websites
Ancestry does their own
FindMyPast shares theirs with familysearch
Open to correction and addition ;D ;D
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I think The Genealogist has census records; not sure of their coverage.
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There's also freecen.org.uk - own transcriptions by volunteers & not shared as far as I know.
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I think The Genealogist has census records; not sure of their coverage.
They have full coverage & its possible to search by keyword, such as a town or occupation, but generally speaking I find their transcriptions pretty dire.
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I think The Genealogist has census records; not sure of their coverage.
They have full coverage & its possible to search by keyword, such as a town or occupation, but generally speaking I find their transcriptions pretty dire.
Yes, but they might get it right (by luck!) on a case the other don't.
I'm currently hunting a "missing" census. :-)
BugBear
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If you don't have a sub there I'm happy to take a look.
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I think The Genealogist has census records; not sure of their coverage.
They have full coverage & its possible to search by keyword, such as a town or occupation, but generally speaking I find their transcriptions pretty dire.
They correct them or add alternatives if notified.
There is 1 U.S. and a link to Irish 1901 & 1911.
Can also search by address and by family members.
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I think The Genealogist has census records; not sure of their coverage.
They have full coverage & its possible to search by keyword, such as a town or occupation, but generally speaking I find their transcriptions pretty dire.
They correct them or add alternatives if notified.
Yes, I know, there's barely a day goes by that I don't send at least 5 corrections! I've kept them all for when subscription time comes around ;D
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I think you will find that a lot of the census transcriptions on the Genealogist website were done by purchasers of their census discs. There was some advantage offered to people who did transcriptions, I can't remember quite how it worked, it was a long time ago.