Ancestry's 1901 England/Wales Census .....

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:28 pm

Hello everyone

I discovered this news today and hoped it might help someone along.

Ancestry.com has opened up its 1901 U.K. Census Index for no charge. This database is open and free for the month of September only.

The link is:
Ancestry.com 1901 U.K. Census Index Free Access http://www.searchforancestors.com/free1901census.html

Follow the instructions on the page to register at Ancestry.com as a guest and have fun!

Search tips to help you get the most of the free census index (not
images) access http://www.searchforancestors.com/free1901census.html

This is not a Free Trial and no credit card is needed.

JimM · Post by **JimM** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:22 pm

Hi Jean
just to add to what you have said..
Did you know that genesreunited have bought the official 1901 census website. You can also do the free search from there.
If anyone wanted to purchase the image it would be cheaper to use the genesreunited site
Jim

Post by **AndrewP** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:49 pm

As far as I can see, the 1901 census index at Ancestry.com is England and Wales only, not Scotland.

Can someone confirm, is the Genes Reunited index also England and Wales only. (I suspect that to be the case.)

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

Post by **Ina** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 6:28 pm

You're correct Andrew, I just checked genesreunited.....it's only for England and Wales.

Ina

JimM · Post by **JimM** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 6:30 pm

Hi Andrew
genesreunited bought the "official" 1901 census site... I should have emphasised that this covers England and Wales only.
The images cost 75p to view.
I think that it is only possible to search the Scottish 1901 through scotlandspeople

Jim

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 7:31 pm

JimM wrote:.......snipped.........I think that it is only possible to search the Scottish 1901 through scotlandspeople
Jim

The 1901 census for Scotland along with 1891 and 1871 will be available only on ScotlandsPeople until the expiry of the contract with ScotlandonLine, which is earliest August 2006, but be aware that there is an option to extend the contract by 2 years; or if an alteration to the present contract is agreed between GROS and ScotlandonLine in terms of allowing other possible service providers access to the data (over and above, that is, various family history societies and the Scottish FreeCen project).

The same, of course, applies to 1861, 1851 and 1841 when they become available.

1881 can, of course, be accessed separately via purchase of the LDS 1881 CDs.

David
(posting as a ScotlandsPeople User Group member)

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 8:16 pm

Thanks guys for clarifying that this does not contain any Scotland records.....I thought my subject line was description enough and had just pasted in the email language that I had received....didn't mean to lead anyone astray

Jean

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:31 pm

JustJean wrote:Thanks guys for clarifying that this does not contain any Scotland records.....I thought my subject line was description enough and had just pasted in the email language that I had received....didn't mean to lead anyone astray

Jean

Nae prob !!

Apart from anything else the thread provided an opperchancity to restate the situation in relation to the Scottish censuses...........

David