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Steve

Steve Report 24 Apr 2005 03:27

Anywhere I can find out what ancestry is planning or working on for their website. i would like to know about it, so i can wait in anticipation

Ann-Marie

Ann-Marie Report 24 Apr 2005 03:40

Apparenly there will be an 1861 census soon, someone on infotrac.galegroup thread mentioned it. AL

Paula

Paula Report 24 Apr 2005 07:39

I thought they were getting the 1861 and the 1851 sometime this year. Does anybody have any idea when?

Steve

Steve Report 24 Apr 2005 07:42

I thought they said they would never have the 1851 census somewhere or something.

Martin

Martin Report 24 Apr 2005 08:54

They recently added Marriages post-1984. Best place to watch is this message board on Ancestry / (Rootsweb?) Boards > Topics > Ancestry.com > United Kingdom and Ireland Laryn Brown makes announcements periodically but they are reluctant to give exact dates of releases because they nearly always end up later than planned. They are attending the Family History Fair this week and plan to make an announcement about 1861 there. I was sure in the past that they said they planned to cover all the censuses 1841 to 1901. They have the 1851 2% sample online, this is available elsewhere but usually as a series of small separate files so it useful to be able to search the whole country and occasionally someone turns up on it. MB

Researching:
BRISCOE POUNDER BOLTON STOKESLEY MIDDLETON_TYAS KIRKBYMOORSIDE LAVERTON KIRKBY_MALZEARD GREWELTHORPE GRANTLEY BRYNREFAIL DEINIOLEN TALYSARN TREALAW LLANFIHANGEL_BRYN_PABUAN MAESMYNIS

Carol

Carol Report 24 Apr 2005 11:08

If they do include all censuses 1841 to 1901, how would it affect the companies selling cds

Martin

Martin Report 24 Apr 2005 17:47

There are already four years available on Ancestry with only three left so I would have thought that companies with CD-ROMs must be feeling the competition. Some claim to do higher quality scans and some have street indexes but I don't think any have attempted a name index (I know one does do an index produced by users). A CD-ROM is more convenient when you want to search every page in any area. I have CD-ROMs for many of the areas that interest me but I could never have got all the counties that I have needed to search. The transcriptions might have plenty of errors but you can usually find someone. MB

Researching:
BRISCOE POUNDER BOLTON STOKESLEY MIDDLETON_TYAS KIRKBYMOORSIDE LAVERTON KIRKBY_MALZEARD GREWELTHORPE GRANTLEY BRYNREFAIL DEINIOLEN TALYSARN TREALAW LLANFIHANGEL_BRYN_PABUAN MAESMYNIS

Twinkle

Twinkle Report 24 Apr 2005 18:04

Competition is good. It will encourage them to release more info for us to buy. 1837online must have realised that FreeBMD would steal their customers, hence they started the 1861 census. FreeCEN is a long, long way off completion but imagine what will happen when all the censuses are available free?