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Cheapest census searches?
« on: Tuesday 02 December 14 19:20 GMT (UK) »
What are the cheapest ways of searching the 1891 and 1901 census via street address?

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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 02 December 14 19:26 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: ents on Tuesday 02 December 14 19:20 GMT (UK)
What are the cheapest ways of searching the 1891 and 1901 census via street address?

Hi and welcome to Rootschat, you can buy credits on FindMyPast not sure of an alternative way?

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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 02 December 14 21:03 GMT (UK) »
If you are in the UK then most of the larger town libraries have access to either Ancestry or FindMy Past giving you free access to the census etc,

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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 02 December 14 21:38 GMT (UK) »
Another cheap way is to ask on RootsChat! ;D

But I've always found it better to search for people rather than addresses?
People moved around a lot!
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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 02 December 14 23:19 GMT (UK) »

Also, very unhelpfully, you don't always get the full address given on the schedule. 

You can look at the description of the enumeration district, even then it does not always help, for example, I was looking today.  London Road, 22 separate dwellings and then straight into the High Street, no numbers or house names recorded for either  :(
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Greenwich/Woolwich. - Clowting. Davis. Kitts. Ferguson. Lowther. Carvalho. Pressman. Redknap. Argent.
Hertfordshire - Sturgeon. Bird. Rule. Claxton. Taylor. Braggins

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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 02 December 14 23:44 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks for the responses. Struggling to find marriage details for my paternal great grand parents but have their address when my grand mother was born hence the need. Fathers name very common and lots of them whereas mothers name less common and cannot find any. So as I was drawing blank on marriage thought it might prove useful to search 1901 and 1891 via street address to locate them (she was born in 1900). I have found a few places where searches can be done by name and year but fewer seem to offer by street name. Found one place but costs around £16 per month.

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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 03 December 14 00:25 GMT (UK) »
Have you tried FreeBMD (.org.uk) for the marriage?

They have a sister site in FreeCEN, and also FreeREG (Parish Registers).
All their sites are done by volunteers, so they're not 100% coverage, but new stuff being added all the time.

Then there's FamilySearch (.org)
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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 03 December 14 07:25 GMT (UK) »
Depending on the census piece number(s)..
There are a number of  census Street indexes online at the National Archives.
Get the refs and plug into (such as Ancestry advanced search.
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