Genealogy Chat

I have finished updating the list of missing pieces now. Lets hope SOMEONE finds it useful?? Thank you.... Sarah

I'm not surprised you missed it. I found it in a backwards sort of way. I found my way to the result by a more convoluted route, and realised that that box was on the front page! Christine

Fantastic - thank you, thank you!! My problem was not recognising the ''Go to Reference'' box for what it was - in fact, I had never noticed it at all, despite using PROCAT every so often....... It is far to late to start looking now, but tomorrow I should be able to make a start on those numbers, thanks to you! Then it's a case of working our which parishes are covered and which are not, out of the list given by the NA. Hopefully I should be able to make sense of it. Probably just in time for Ancestry to add a whole lot more data, making my list a waste of time lol Happy Hunting and thanks again Sarah

Right... The site you want is: http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.asp You should come up with a window that says (top left): You are here: Home > Search the archives > the Catalogue Welcome to the Catalogue (formerly PROCAT) Just below the bit that says where you are in the system, there's a little window with a 'Go to reference' button below it. That's where you put the census references you're after. You seem to need a space between the RG and the 9 for 1861. If you put in: RG 9/3855 and then click on the 'go to reference' button, you'll see what I mean. good hunting! Christine PS - 'thicky' doesn't seem an appropriate word. I happened to know I could find the info if I were determined and I also had an idea of what the pages of info would look like when I found them, so I could also recognise when it looked like the right sort of place. I think there must have been a link, or something, with the original explanation I found... wherever that was ... to set me on the right track.

Hi I've just got back from another Verdi Requiem rehearsal. It's Bushey festival this fortnight, and the Gala Concert is on Saturday-week (16th July). It promises to be really exciting, but we do have to keep up the practice! Now...hunting in the archives. You want me to remember what I did, don't you! Well, I'll have to go away and experiment, and then I'll come back and tell you. It took me a little while yesterday even to pick on the right bit of th Archives system... I'd seen somewhere about how to check which bit of a census you needed if you were looking for a particular parish. back in a while... Christine

Nudge.....Christiiiiiine, where are yoooooouuu?? Sarah

Christine - please tell me how to access the data on the National Archives site, like you did, to improve my list of missing 1861 census pieces......I'm too stupid - all results showed ''nil'' for me. Please tell me what to enter.......(Idiot's guide required). Thanks!! Happy Hunting - Sarah