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If you're going to enter a pob, then this can be mistranscribed too. Also, don't assume the county was always present. This is especially true of big cities, like Newcastle, Manchester, etc. Also, don't assume the transcriber knows enough English geography to recognize Nland is an abbreviation for Northumberland, even though they're transcribing a Northumberland piece.

To take a specific example from the 1851 Scottish census, there are 616 hits with pob=Rosehearty (the standard spelling), and 646 hits for pob=Roseh*. I don't have a full Ancestry transcription, but playing guess-the-typo convinces me that 8 of the extra 30 are misspellings / mistranscriptions of Rosehearty, and 2 are of Ross-shire. I gave up on the other 20, but it does illustrate the point I'm trying to make, namely that it pays to use a wildcard character in the pob, maybe just giving enough letters to make sure most of the hits you get are relevant.

Jonesey

I have been browsing this morning and found this page and your very easy to follow instructions. Thank you for having the patience to do this. I will book mark this and use it for all the people I cannot fond in certain census returns, OH says at least it will keep me going for a few months!

Finally, can I print this info?


Bridget

Fair enough. They must have been hiding in a haystack.
Jan

Let's go mad:


1851 England Census
about Henry Abraham
Name: Henry Abraham
Age: 30
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1821
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Florence
Mother's Name: John
Gender: Male
Where born: Bridgwater, Somerset, England

Civil parish: Taunton St Mary Magdalen
Town: Taunton
County/Island: Somerset

Registration district: Taunton
Sub-registration district: Pitminster

Henry Abraham 30
Florence Abraham 29
Florence Abraham 3
Henry Abraham 1
John Abraham 19
Dorothy Heard 24
Mary Ann Blackmore 20

Hi Janet
I am searched out!
Here is his mother.
1871
Florence Abrahams abt 1823 Falmouth, Cornwall, England Servant St Mary, Hampshire
No previous trace(nee Rowe)
Married Henry Abraham 19/01/1942 in Falmouth.

Not him?

1851 England Census
about Henry Abraham
Name: Henry Abraham
Age: 4
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1847
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Henry
Mother's Name: Emma
Gender: Male
Where born: Crowan, Cornwall, England

Civil parish: Crowan
County/Island: Cornwall

Registration district: Helston
Sub-registration district: St Keverne

Henry Abraham 26
Emma Abraham 24
John Abraham 6
Henry Abraham 4
Edwin Abraham 2
Emma Abraham 3 Mo

It all sounds so easy but not everyone appears in every census.
Prove me wrong.
1871
Henry Abrahams Martha C abt 1846 Falmouth, Cornwall, England Head St Mary, Hampshire
Where is he 1851/1861?

Wow Jonesey
Thanks for all that info now it's getting time to go thru it and put it into practise

Please can anyone give me tips for looking through Ancestory it's so frustrating when I have to keep asking for help and other's seem to be able to find people and I can't.
Grateful for any help