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From: "John Gillies" <>
Subject: Re: [D-G LIST] 1851 census
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:40:17 +0200
References: <3D82D565.EC2EFF9F@telus.net>


I am infrequent poster to this list. Can someone tell me how to get access
to the 1851 census online? Thanks.

John Gillies
Geneva, Switzerland

----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Sherlock" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: [D-G LIST] 1851 census


> Hi Shirley! What works for me is to find one person that I'm looking for
> by typing in the surname (in the surname space) ... then I note the
> household number and the name of the parish, and type those in, and then
> press search and everyone in that household comes up! Cheers from Linda
>
> Shirley Olsen wrote:
> >
> > Hi Listers,
> > I am surely computer illiterate, but I'm stumped! I have been exploring
the
> > 1851 census index and was quite thrilled to find it. However, I've
> > understood from other mailings that one could pull up an entire
household
> > from it. I can't figure out how to do that. I was in search of Murrays
> > (Margaret) and found there were 1583 of them I think. I finally looked
> > through that many to find my household. According to Mary R. if I
entered
> > the surname of the person listed as head of the household, who was John,
I
> > should have gotten all the household. I didn't. I need to do more work
there
> > and would very much like not to go through so many names! What can I be
> > doing wrong? I tried both the general surname search and the advanced.
The
> > advanced search always told me there were none--though I knew there
> > were--LIKE 1500+!. Am I making any sense? Does anyone have any advice
for a
> > dunce?
> >
> > Shirley Olsen
> > Washington State
> >
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