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Offline jbml

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1861 census issues with FindMyPast
« on: Wednesday 22 February 23 23:33 GMT (UK) »
It's happened a couple of times now that other RootsChatters using other FH sites have referred to entries in the 1861 census that I simply cannot find using FindMyPast, even though I have full particulars of the location, names and ages of the people they are referring to.

Is there a known problem with the accuracy of the indexing of the 1861 census transcriptions on FindMyPast, or have I just been unlucky?

(I'm not talking about the missing pieces here ... I know all about them. I'm talking about people who have given me full details of addresses and people living there, only to search those names and ages and be told that FindMyPast has no results for me ... )
All identified names up to and including my great x5 grandparents: Abbot Andrews Baker Blenc(h)ow Brothers Burrows Chambers Clifton Cornwell Escott Fisher Foster Frost Giddins Groom Hardwick Harris Hart Hayho(e) Herman Holcomb(e) Holmes Hurley King-Spooner Martindale Mason Mitchell Murphy Neves Oakey Packman Palmer Peabody Pearce Pettit(t) Piper Pottenger Pound Purkis Rackliff(e) Richardson Scotford Sherman Sinden Snear Southam Spooner Stephenson Varing Weatherley Webb Whitney Wiles Wright

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Re: 1861 census issues with FindMyPast
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 22 February 23 23:37 GMT (UK) »
I've always found FindMyPast better than the other sites for census records. Maybe you are unlucky.

Can you give an example?

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Re: 1861 census issues with FindMyPast
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 22 February 23 23:43 GMT (UK) »
I can ... but not tonight. (Off to bed ... )
All identified names up to and including my great x5 grandparents: Abbot Andrews Baker Blenc(h)ow Brothers Burrows Chambers Clifton Cornwell Escott Fisher Foster Frost Giddins Groom Hardwick Harris Hart Hayho(e) Herman Holcomb(e) Holmes Hurley King-Spooner Martindale Mason Mitchell Murphy Neves Oakey Packman Palmer Peabody Pearce Pettit(t) Piper Pottenger Pound Purkis Rackliff(e) Richardson Scotford Sherman Sinden Snear Southam Spooner Stephenson Varing Weatherley Webb Whitney Wiles Wright

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Re: 1861 census issues with FindMyPast
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 22 February 23 23:44 GMT (UK) »
Well, I'm off to hospital for tests tomorrow so someone else will have to help.
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Re: 1861 census issues with FindMyPast
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 22 February 23 23:52 GMT (UK) »
The Frank Spooner which you commented on on anther thread , came up with no problem. I took the ref from the FS link.

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