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From: "Cameron" <>
Subject: Re: [D-G LIST] Hannay-Michael household in 1851 Census?
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:44:58 +1000
References: <188.db6a727.2aaf5888@aol.com> <3D7E0BC8.9040602@ix.netcom.com> <000801c2591b$a789a500$55528890@nsw.bigpond.net.au> <002b01c2591e$de3c9b40$e111b7d1@JamesMercer> <3D7EA391.7010909@ix.netcom.com>


Hello Mary,

While Jim Mercer's brilliant suggestion certainly helped a lot by cutting
down the number of pages that needed careful checking, I agree with you that
it would be helpful to be able to search by household number.

In any event, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank hugely the Friends
of the Archives of Dumfries and Galloway and the other volunteers for the
remarkable resource they have provided.

Kind regards

Sybil Cameron
Sydney

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Richardson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [D-G LIST] Hannay-Michael household in 1851 Census?


> jmercer wrote:
>
> >If you enter only the surname of the person listed as head of the
household,
> >you will get all the people in that household, even if they have a
different
> >surname, as they will show up as "household of Mr/Mrs. xxx". Looking at
the
> >household number will allow you to pick them out fairly easily.
> >
> That still can leave you with a lot of pages to weed through. The Quick
> Search feature says it matches any part of any field. I tested it on
> every field and found it to be true for every field BUT household
> number. I suspect this may be a glitch, but since I couldn't come up
> with any other way to find everyone who was living under the same roof,
> I e-mailed the CIS folks to suggest that they give us the option to
> search on household number.
>
> Mary Richardson
>
>
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