1881 British Census index

[Steve Hayes]

Is there any way of downloading families from the FamilySearch pages in the
1881 census?

I've tried to do it, but all I get is a bunch of isolated individuals, and it
does not show the family relations shown in the Census.


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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

[john]

Steve Hayes wrote:

Is there any way of downloading families from the FamilySearch pages in the
1881 census?

I've tried to do it, but all I get is a bunch of isolated individuals, and it
does not show the family relations shown in the Census.

Not as far as I am aware (someone may have written some software to
process the information - but it is unlikely to be 100% accurate).

The information in the online 1881 census is of individuals and
households not families. It is possible to envisage many possibilities
which could lead to errors in trying to create families from the
information; e.g. where there are more than two families in the
household who might or might not be related or a where a family is split
across two or more households.

It is up to you to check the accuracy of the information and to make the
appropriate links.

[mike walton]

Try the http://www.familyhistoryonline.net website.

You have to register (free) and then you have access to a number of
databases, most oh which you have to pay for. However the LDS-1881
census is free. After finding an individual you are given the choice
to see the others in the same household. Family relations,
occupatios, place of birth etc are given






On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:36:50 GMT, [email protected] (Steve Hayes)
wrote:

Is there any way of downloading families from the FamilySearch pages in the
1881 census?

I've tried to do it, but all I get is a bunch of isolated individuals, and it
does not show the family relations shown in the Census.


--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

[Chad Hanna]

In message <[email protected]>, Steve Hayes
<[email protected]> writes

Is there any way of downloading families from the FamilySearch pages in the
1881 census?

I've tried to do it, but all I get is a bunch of isolated individuals, and it
does not show the family relations shown in the Census.


A good option for downloading would be to use

http://www.familyhistoryonline.net the pay-per view site for the Federation of
FHS. Sign-on is free as is the LDS-1881 census, I recommend using your
email address as your user name.

Once you find your individual it will let you link to the household if
there's more than one in the household. View in table mode and it is
then straightforward to copy and paste into your favourite spreadsheet.

Oh, and you can use wildcards for searching.

There will be a minor update on the site Friday morning (GMT) , adding
170,000 more records including Birmingham marriages, Wiltshire Quarter
Sessions index and Wakefield area Tithe awards. Sorry, but they are not
(quite) free.

Chad
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Chad Hanna
Chairman Berkshire Family History Society http://www.berksfhs.org.uk
Quality Family History Data http://www.familyhistoryonline.net

[John Hill]

john <[email protected]> wrote:

Steve Hayes wrote:
Is there any way of downloading families from the FamilySearch pages in
the 1881 census?

I've tried to do it, but all I get is a bunch of isolated individuals,
and it does not show the family relations shown in the Census.



Not as far as I am aware (someone may have written some software to
process the information - but it is unlikely to be 100% accurate).

The information in the online 1881 census is of individuals and households
not families. It is possible to envisage many possibilities which could
lead to errors in trying to create families from the information; e.g.
where there are more than two families in the household who might or might
not be related or a where a family is split across two or more households.

It is up to you to check the accuracy of the information and to make the
appropriate links.

I have done this for many families; I find the individual, then the
household. I download the household as a GEDCOM file, and import it into
a new file in my family history application (in my case, Reunion).

I then establish the links - usually by linking first the parents, then
the children, then children's spouses (if any), grandparents, etc. Then
I look to see who is left over, and incorporate them if possible, or
discard them.

Finally I merge the newly created file with my main data - but not until
I've thoroughly checked it!

All the information in the return is held in the source detail field for
*each* person in the GEDCOM.

John (Bournemouth).

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john at yclept dot freeserve dot co dot uk

[Bill Harrison]

Hi All

I've replied off list to steve but for the benefit of all the others ......

Once you have downloaded the GEDCOM file from familysearch you need a
programme called LDS Companion which can be found at
http://www.archersoftware.co.uk this will convert your GEDCOM file into various
formats ie xls, dbf, etc ...... as well as doing reports directly.

I use it as a go between to import into Custodian3 NOT a typical Genealogy
package but a programme for storing all your data. Their website can be
found at http://www.custodian3.co.uk/

I have NO connection at all with the two progs mentioned above

regards

Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad Hanna" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 1:39 AM
Subject: Re: 1881 British Census index

In message <[email protected]>, Steve Hayes
[email protected]> writes
Is there any way of downloading families from the FamilySearch pages in
the
1881 census?

I've tried to do it, but all I get is a bunch of isolated individuals,
and it
does not show the family relations shown in the Census.


A good option for downloading would be to use
http://www.familyhistoryonline.net the pay-per view site for the Federation of
FHS. Sign-on is free as is the LDS-1881 census, I recommend using your
email address as your user name.

Once you find your individual it will let you link to the household if
there's more than one in the household. View in table mode and it is
then straightforward to copy and paste into your favourite spreadsheet.

Oh, and you can use wildcards for searching.

There will be a minor update on the site Friday morning (GMT) , adding
170,000 more records including Birmingham marriages, Wiltshire Quarter
Sessions index and Wakefield area Tithe awards. Sorry, but they are not
(quite) free.

Chad
--
Chad Hanna
Chairman Berkshire Family History Society http://www.berksfhs.org.uk
Quality Family History Data http://www.familyhistoryonline.net