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From: "peter byford" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] 1901 Census Data Extractor
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:04:58 +0100
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Alan,

Can you explain what the "extractor" program is please?

Cheers,

Peter Byford
please respond to
researching:
BYFORD - Yorkshire and Samuel of 1750s
BERGIN - Kilkenny, Ballysaggarts, Ireland
FINCH - East London
HARRIS - Henry of Shepherds Bush
HOLMAN - Sussex,Kent,Surrey,Colorado
HOUSE - Dorset
PIPE -Suffolk
READ - Somerset , Bath
SCOTCHER - Essex
YOXALL - Cheshire
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 11:12 PM
Subject: RE: [CHS] 1901 Census Data Extractor


> I have used the extractor program with great success. I suggest you
> paste all of the data before running the extract macro.
>
> Regards
> Alan Bennett
> Lowton
> England
>
>
> Cheshire BMD Transcriber
> http://cheshirebmd.org.uk
> Cheshire Surnames Directory Administrator
> http://www.fhsc.org.uk/surnames
> The Lancashire Parish Register Society
> http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/lprs/
>
> "I use Archive CD Books to help with my research
> http://www.archivecdbooks.org";
>
> Researching:
> BENNETT (North Cheshire & Warrington)
> THOMPSTONE (Gawsworth)
> ROBERTS (Warrington)
> LOUGHLIN (Liverpool)
> JONES (Liverpool)
> MATCHETT (Liverpool)
> LLOYD (Liverpool)
> JEFFERSON (Brighouse, Yorkshire)
>
> Lookups:
> I have a copy of the transcribed Parish Registers of St James, Gawsworth
> from 1557-1837
> and will do lookups on request.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: andrea.m.cole [mailto:]
> Sent: 04 September 2002 21:35
> To:
> Subject: [CHS] 1901 Census Data Extractor
>
>
> Hi list
>
> Before you get carried away with this - like I did. A word of warning.
> I believe there's a bug in it. (There is a disclaimer.)
>
> I extracted the entire population of JENNINGS and then sorted on page
> ID. I ended up with all male families, and all female families. Not a
> single
> instance of what we normally think of as a family. I then repeated the
> exercise with a name for which I had known results, by the print and
> write down the ID method, and compared results. Same problem.
>
> It may just be that I didn't follow the instructions verbatim. Not
> knowing enough about hyperlinks I assumed that if the page in the census
> was not still displayed, then the program wouldn't be able to extract
> the links. So I took a sort of belt & braces approach.
>
> For example I extracted males for a 40 year period and then used the
> extract hyperlink. Then added another set and extracted etc etc.
>
> Maybe if you cut and paste everything, and then only extract once -
> which is what the instructions seem to indicate - then it would be OK.
> I am too dispirited at the moment to try again
>
>
> Perhaps someone has a better experience that would encourage me to try
> again?
>
> Regards
> Andrea, Leicestershire
>
>
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