Main menu:
OTHER INTERESTING STUFF
Now available fron 'FindMyPast'
We have added many more of the counties that were unavailable on the beta
site over Christmas, including Lancashire, Essex, Kent, Yorkshire (West
Riding), Nottinghamshire and Herefordshire. We continue to scan the
remainder of the census and will make the remaining counties available as
soon as possible. A full list of the counties available at launch, and those
still to come, appears at the end of this email.
We expect the site to be very busy at first, and so we have taken a number
of measures to make sure that as many people as possible can get their
searches completed successfully. The first is that we have deliberately
restricted some of the search functions on the site, meaning that the search
is not as flexible as it will be later on. Secondly, we are only allowing
users to download original pages, rather than view them directly on the
website.
Obviously, we will 'unlock' the powerful search features and switch on image
viewers as soon as possible after launch and let you know by email and via
the blog when we have done this.
During launch, if the site becomes exceptionally busy, we will also restrict
the number of new people entering the site. We want to allow the people who
are already using the site to complete their searches rather than make the
site impossibly slow for everybody. We have built the site to withstand a
very large (but not infinite) number of visitors, so if you find that you
are not being allowed in, please bear with us. Real-time service updates can
be found on our blog, which we advise you to check frequently for the latest
news.
Finally, we know many of you are as excited as we are to see the remaining
counties that will become available over the coming months. However, we
cannot give you specific launch dates for these remaining counties - we are
continuing to scan the census into the spring and anticipate that the census
will be complete by this summer. Rest assured that by staying signed up to
our newsletter and checking the blog, you will be the first to know of all
new developments.
Thank you to all those who participated in the beta period and we wish you
the very best of success in using the 1911census.co.uk website to broaden
your family history research.
The 1911census.co.uk team
Counties available at launch:
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Cornwall
Derbyshire
Devonshire
Dorsetshire
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
London
Middlesex
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Rutlandshire
Shropshire
Somersetshire
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Warwickshire
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
Yorkshire West Riding