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From: "The Forsters" <>
Subject: Re: [DEV] 1901 Census information
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 11:09:57 +1300
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Just a quick note about this ...I have used it and it works have found
children that I did not know existed.

If anyone wants any further help on this contact me off list...By the way
you need to be connected "on line" to use it.

Colin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [DEV] 1901 Census information


> On the subject of extracting information from the 1901 Census, I have
found
> the following freeware program produced by the Leeds Indexers (Family
> history group collating information for Leeds, Yorkshire) after a posting
on
> a surname list.
>
> The program requires Excel 2000 to run properly, see website:
>
> http://leedsindexers.co.uk/Census_Extract.htm#Download
>
> You put in just a surname in the 1901 Person search, and may have to
> restrict by sex and/or age if it is a popular name. You highlight and copy
> the search results into the Excel spreadsheet. Once you have all the data
> you run two operations that puts in the Page & Person ID's, and then a
> guessimate of the piece & folio numbers. I have been told that the
> guessimate is quite accurate.
>
> You then sort on the Person ID field and this will group all the relevant
> families together, so you can see who was together at the time of the
> census. Of course it will not tell you relationships, and is no help for
> those alone, but it does easily identify the family you are looking for
plus
> new children if you are lucky.
>
> Beware that if the surname has been transcribed incorrectly you will still
> have to search on the variants.
>
> Steve Steere
> Orpington, Kent.
> KEMP in the Tiverton, DEV area.
>
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