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Re: Free 1911 Census Access
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 29 July 09 16:49 BST (UK) »
Quote from: kerryb on Wednesday 29 July 09 11:29 BST (UK)

I think you will find according to the Government the South East is covered, SEEDA and SEERA (whoever they are!) probably include Birmingham in the South East  :( ::)

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I don't think so,   More likely to be Norwich or Devon  :)

Anyway - where's Kew  if not the SE. You do have that.

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Re: Free 1911 Census Access
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 29 July 09 18:41 BST (UK) »
Look everyone I don't wish to sound envious  (OK, I'm envious) because I do appreciate it's frustrating that not all libraries will be involved and some are difficult to get to.
But look on the bright side - at least we can look at it, even on line at a price.    The Scottish Government is sticking to the 100 year rule and it will be 2011 before we can get in to that - and then it will be at Scotland's People rates!
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Re: Free 1911 Census Access
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 29 July 09 18:44 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Gadget on Wednesday 29 July 09 16:49 BST (UK)
Quote from: kerryb on Wednesday 29 July 09 11:29 BST (UK)

I think you will find according to the Government the South East is covered, SEEDA and SEERA (whoever they are!) probably include Birmingham in the South East  :( ::)

Kerry


I don't think so,   More likely to be Norwich or Devon  :)

Anyway - where's Kew  if not the SE. You do have that.

Gadget


Whichever one, in the eyes of Oliver Morley the South East is covered.  Whether we agree with that or not is probably not that important to him.

Personally I agree with Maggie and for a few pence and some wise searching I'll stick to my computer.  ::) ;D

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« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 29 July 09 18:46 BST (UK) »
Well I'm not gonna complain even if I do have to travel to Nottinghamshire Archives.  Thing is they gonna be so overwhelmed it will be 12 months before I can get in lol
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« Reply #13 on: Monday 03 August 09 14:22 BST (UK) »
It's strange the press release doesn't mention that the 1911 census is already free to view at the National Archives in Kew, and has been for some time.

I went there about a month ago; there were literally hundreds of terminals available, and you didn't even need to sign in or anything, just turn up, sit at a terminal and start searching! Apparently they have relaxed their security there recently, you only need reader's cards to get into the reading rooms. They have a large free carpark as well.

You just need to go armed with cash to buy printouts of the sheets, at 20p a go. I got all mine printed out in one day, I think I spent £3.60.

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« Reply #14 on: Monday 03 August 09 14:35 BST (UK) »
Darren,

Are you available for lookups?  ;D

Is it possible to save to a USB drive?

(I must say that I am most surprised by the free carpark  :o).

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« Reply #15 on: Monday 03 August 09 15:04 BST (UK) »
Hi Ruskie,

Afraid not - I took a day's holiday to go to Kew as a one-off. I live about 35 miles away, it actually took me 2 hours to get back on the afternoon I went due to problems on the M4!  >:(

I would have preferred to email the census images to myself (as I have done with the 1841-1901 censuses when viewing them at the local library), but the computers are very locked down at TNA, there's no access to a hard drive or USB devices, so no ability to save an attachment, also all email sites are blocked, so they've done a good job there. Plus the T&Cs clearly state that you mustn't use the system for any of those purposes. I am a fairly techy person who works in IT, and there was definitely no way around their security, even if I had dared to use it...

I went purely to view the scans, having already found the records I wanted through the 1911 site without spending a penny. I had already established most of what I wanted to know; I was mostly interested in seeing other, more minor bit of information, such as occupations, children born/died/total/years of marriage, etc.

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« Reply #16 on: Monday 03 August 09 15:16 BST (UK) »
Hi Ruskie,

Afraid not - I took a day's holiday to go to Kew as a one-off. I live about 35 miles away, it actually took me 2 hours to get back on the afternoon I went due to problems on the M4!  >:(

I would have preferred to email the census images to myself (as I have done with the 1841-1901 censuses when viewing them at the local library), but the computers are very locked down at TNA, there's no access to a hard drive or USB devices, so no ability to save an attachment, also all email sites are blocked, so they've done a good job there. Plus the T&Cs clearly state that you mustn't use the system for any of those purposes. I am a fairly techy person who works in IT, and there was definitely no way around their security, even if I had dared to use it...

I went purely to view the scans, having already found the records I wanted through the 1911 site without spending a penny. I had already established most of what I wanted to know; I was mostly interested in seeing other, more minor bit of information, such as occupations, children born/died/total/years of marriage, etc.

Darren

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« Reply #17 on: Friday 07 August 09 00:41 BST (UK) »
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Hi Ruskie,

Afraid not - I took a day's holiday to go to Kew as a one-off. I live about 35 miles away, it actually took me 2 hours to get back on the afternoon I went due to problems on the M4!  >:(

Darren

I wasn't really being serious about you offering lookups. Can you imagine how many requests you'd get! It's be a full time unpaid job ...  ;)

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