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This book has been mentioned elsewhere on RC....

Pre-1841 Censuses & Population Listings in the British Isles (Paperback)
By Colin R Chapman

available from www.thebookdepository.co.uk for £12.12 (free postage).  The book is a US import, so could take about a week to arrive.

This book does not contain the actual pre-1841 data, but it does tell you which towns and villages had censuses pre-1841 that contain actual names.  It also suggests other lists which would contain names, and in all cases it tells you where this data is stored.  A very useful book, especially for the beginner.

I'm locking this thread because it was not intended to be a discussion on Microsoft vs other OS.

If you want a cheap upgrade to Win8, then buy it, and if you don't, then don't !

Merry Christmas  ;

With respect, copyright laws are not really that clear-cut - there's a lot of 'grey areas'.  I haven't re-read the thread you linked to, but I clearly recall Guy Etchells reminding us all that a photo or scan of a document or image itself carries a copyright, if of course the person who did the scanning had the rights to photograph the item in the first place.

Thanks mshrmh and Lizzie, I just checked my options on Firefox and find that it has indeed reverted to English US.   

Have now re-set it to the language I want.
Perhaps I should take a leaf out of your book Lizzie and make sure it realises that I crack the whip.

It's just told me that realise has a Z.   I shall have to crack the whip a bit harder.

Ahh, just install Google Chrome - it has a spelling checker that you can set to UK English and it stays there    Chrome also has this great facility where you highlight a word or words, then right-click, and you have the option to Google search the highlighted words.