PHILLIPS, *Completed! Thanks to Everyone who helped*.

[newbie]

But it cost me another £25.00 today  !
newbie 

[Romilly]

Hi Newbie,

Really pleased for you that you've found both of yours!!

Annoying though...when you think of how many credits we have wasted opening ones that turned out to be wrong:-(

I've gone through all of mine again...& STILL can't find any of my Phillips's

Perhaps they're just adding things in dribs & drabs...?? (Just to keep us buying more credits).

Romilly

[Ladyhawk]

Hi Romilly,

It does make you wonder, especially as you know they are alive and should be on there, if the search does not appear to work correctly you should at least be offered some free credits 

I don't want you to spend anymore credits but have you tried residence Neath.
start with just James' name then add each other family members name - could this be them  !!!!

Tried starting with Sarah Ann added James then nothing when you add other names 

Would they check it out for you if you feel this maybe your family as you've bought so many credits 

Hope you find them soon - good luck 

[Romilly]

Hi Ladyhawk,

And Many Thanks for looking again for me .

I put in 'James Phillips' & 'Neath' and got 5 hits...adding 'William George Phillips' reduced it to 1...& so I bit the bullet...& paid for the transcript, - but it wasn't them:-(

I must admit to having brought yet more credits last week, - but once they're gone...I shall give up!!

It does seem terribly unequable that the Irish 1911 is free to view...

Best Wishes, Romilly.

[newbie]

Hi Romilly,
   oh I'm so sorry, I hope I didn't send you off on a "wild goose chase".
I just can't understand it, we both looked for mine before when Glamorgan came on line (thanks for helping me  )
and none of mine were there but yesterday I just thought blow it I'll have one more try, like you I wasted credits on families I thought might be them!  but they just popped up, I entered only the surname and the birth place and there they all were, worked for both families!
But now I have to go spend some of those credits.  I just wish they would put it on subscription.
good luck,
newbie

[Ladyhawk]

Sorry Romilly - you must be so frustrated - wish there was more I could do - take heart from Newbie - they will turn up I'm sure BUT keep hold of those credits for a while ...... 

[Romilly]

Hi All,

After downloading another couple of wrong 'uns...I phoned the 1911 Helpline at FindMyPast.

And they said...

that there were lots of Census pages that were too badly damaged to be scanned!! (I had thought that this had just happened to some of central Cardiff, - but no, its all over the place apparantly:-(

And so it could be that this is what happened with the entry for my Great Uncle & Aunt, James and Sarah Ann Phillips, & children, Evan Rees, David, William George and John.

What is so annoying with this...is that I could have just continued to purchase more credits...& continued wasting them...because I thought that the problem lay with my searching abilities, - rather than with the 1911 Census Transcriptions

The only thing that the Helpline could advise, is to try & find a Death Entry for James or Sarah Ann Phillips, purchase the Cert, & then do an address search on the 1911. And so perhaps I'll try that path...

Romilly

[newbie]

Hrrrmmmmm,   aaaaggghhhhh....that is so frustrating, I expect somewhere on the 1911 site there is that information about missing pages ?
still a bit bemused as to why mine weren't there and then they turn up later!
maybe you could try the national archives direct, is there a film available to view of all the pages, including those that are "unreadable" ?
newbie

[Romilly]

Hrrrmmmmm,   aaaaggghhhhh....that is so frustrating, I expect somewhere on the 1911 site there is that information about missing pages ?
still a bit bemused as to why mine weren't there and then they turn up later!
maybe you could try the national archives direct, is there a film available to view of all the pages, including those that are "unreadable" ?
newbie

According to the FindmyPast people, the 1911 will not be available to view at Kew untill 2011!! (Because of the 100yr Rule) And so if I enquired at Kew, - they would just refer me back to BrightSolid, - who seem to have a blanket monopoly on the 1911

Aaaaaaarrrrgggghhhh...

I've had a wade through the 1911 Site again, but I can't find anything specific about damage to Swansea/Morriston pages.

Romilly.