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**Janey

**Janey Report 1 Jan 2010 16:47

Anyone received a mail from them today listing some of the new stuff they will have this year? Its say's they will be having the 1911 census summary books at no additional cost to customers on all of there membership packages :-))

CatieI

CatieI Report 1 Jan 2010 18:14

Does anyone know what information the Summary Books contain?
Thank You :)

Catie x

Carter

Carter Report 1 Jan 2010 18:35

not had this email ? would love to know what info the books would have it would be great if it was the full 1911 census. i have a 6 months subscription with findmypast so after that runs out it would be great if i could get it in for the same price .
cheers linda

CatieI

CatieI Report 1 Jan 2010 19:35

Thank you for explaining Jonesey :)

Catie x

Karen

Karen Report 1 Jan 2010 20:34

I had an email last week stating the new stuff that could be accessed this year, didnt see anything about the 1911 census, will keep checking my inbox

Joy

Joy Report 1 Jan 2010 21:06

Very interesting, because in January last year I received the following from National Archives; I had asked if or when the ancestry site would have the 1911 census.


The 1911 Census contract was awarded to
Scotland Online (brightsolid) who subsequently acquired Find My Past.

No microfilm exists of the 1911 census, in contrast to previous censuses
which had previously been filmed. Scanning from original paper documents
is about 10 times more costly than scanning from microfilm. The huge
investment involved in scanning 18m images in colour direct from paper
original census returns has to be recouped if digitisation is to be
economically viable, thus The National Archives agreed that for the
initial launch period of this census, pricing would be on a pay-per-view
basis only. Scanning is still ongoing, so there will be a phased release
of records over a few of months in 2009. Later in the year, these
records will be incorporated into findmypast subscription content, and
available on the same terms as other censuses, passenger lists and other
genealogical resources.

In addition, once the scanning and transcribing of the 1911 census has
been completed and has been available online for 6 months, the images
only, will be available for duplication and re-sale to any other
commercial providers, county record offices or any other interested
bodies or individuals, who will then need to create their own
transcriptions, indexes and online services, but we have not entered
into any formal negotiations with secondary licensees at this point in
time.

Why did I start this?

Why did I start this? Report 1 Jan 2010 21:51

Just seen the email from ancestry. Great news about the 1911 census. Thought they would have to push ahead with this census.