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From: "Connie Everitt" <>
Subject: [BONIFACE-L] Fw: [LAN] Sharing a neat 1901 census trick to reduce the likelihood of abject poverty
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:39:59 -0800

Hello Everyone,
Here a helpful hint when using the 1901 census website.
http://www.census.pro.gov.uk
(Still hard to get the search to work, server too busy)
Best Regards:
Connie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Wallis" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:24 AM
Subject: [LAN] Sharing a neat 1901 census trick to reduce the likelihood of
abject poverty


> I just figured out this neat trick to help you figure out which family is
> yours from the 1901 census (if you can ever get your search to complete!)
> before you actually risk life, limb and your children's school lunch money
> and order the image files.
>
> I searched for my Philip PETTITT family, first by finding the one person I
> was certain of - the father - since I knew his birth place and date.
>
> I found him in Bristol so I searched for every PETTITT in Bristol and came
> up with what was obviously more than one family.
>
> I then noticed that, if you hover your mouse over the icon that takes you
> down the slippery slope into abject poverty (a.k.a getting the census page
> image), in Internet Exploder it displays a message like "Shortcut to
> ChargeableServlet?rType=image&pageType=PAGE&pageId=847185" in the status
bar
> at the bottom left of the IE window. I speculate that the number after
> pageId is the identifier for the actual image to be retrieved. So,
hovering
> over all the buttons in turn you can see which ones have the same pageId
and
> thus are the same family. In my case there were clearly 4 distinct PETTITT
> families in Bristol and I was able to separate them out easily.
>
> It's not 100% of course - you don't get other people at the same address
for
> example, however you can see if your family is on one page or two (I
imagine
> that the pages are going to have sequential pageIDs)
>
> Hope this helps someone
>
> Cheers
>
> Hugh Wallis
>
>
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