1841 and 1851 census - missing mother and son?

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue May 05, 2009 3:15 am

Hello Steiner,

According to the last User Group minutes the fixing of the 1851 blue paper problem is part of the contract for the 1911 census so I suppose it could be a couple of years away. The only information I can see on the SP site relating to “No Image” refers to modern day indexes.

Most of the blue page problem is from SP’s use of the “1 bit” black and white with no shades of grey format. In other words if it is at all readable on a microfilm copy it should be just as readable on a “8 bit”, 256 shades of grey, greyscale scan of the microfilm. They could have easily provided these images as greyscale JPEG’s and they would certainly be no worse than some of the images they’re currently dishing up as birth, marriage and death certificates and the like.

If you don’t have any luck with the 1851 microfilm you could try sending SP a contact form and let them spell out the options.

All the best,
Alan

steiner · Post by **steiner** » Tue May 05, 2009 5:33 pm

Jean and Currie

Heard from SP today

Ann McGraw is given as Widowed. Seems to prove something any thoughts?

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Wed May 06, 2009 12:33 am

My money is still riding on her being your gal then!

Very nice of SP to do the lookup for you too!!

Best wishes
Jean