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Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	14 Nov 2004 10:24
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Lynn You can access the 1881 census free on the Family History Online site - it presents it differently from familysearch and you can't make your search as specific to start with, but it helps when the LDS site is playing up, which it is quite a lot at the moment. nell
Member Since: September 2004 Posts: 14 Send Message	William	Report	13 Nov 2004 23:47
	One of the reasons for problems is that in days gone by people were illiterate and couldn't read and write, the recorder wrote names phonetically, also people told the adjudicator they were all born in the place the census was taken, also you will find in a lot of cases people just did not know how old they were. Sometimes you can be fooled by the fact sometimes the name they were commonly called is on the census. eg Betsy for Elizabeth. Try to wild card names or places for speed and a cross section, a wild card is eg barrow* for Barrow in Furness, or J* (surname). it works for me. Do you use the free website Family Search Internet services for your 1881? if not try it.
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 1 907 Send Message	Lynn	Report	12 Nov 2004 09:32
	hi all has anyone else had problems with family search? i have just tried it and got the message that i had been temp suspended as i had requested a lot of info ??? lynn