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From: Roy Stockdill <>
Subject: [SoG] Access to 1901 census
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:46:43 -0500


James Drabble wrote.....

>>As a subsidiary question, I wonder if Roy Stockdill knows why Sheffield
FHS
chose to index the 1861 Census rather than that of 1851?<<

ACCORDING to my copy of "Marriage and Census Indexes for Family Historians"
by Jeremy Gibson and Elizabeth Hampson (eighth edition, published towards
the end of 2000 and, therefore, up to date), Sheffield and District FHS
have indexed the 1851 census for Sheffield, Bradfield and Eccleshall by
name, age and birthplace.

They have also indexed the 1841 by name for Sheffield, the 1861 by name,
age and birthplace for Sheffield and Rotherham, the 1871 by name for
Sheffield, and the 1881 for Sheffield.

I think what you are asking is why only the 1861 is available for purchase
or search on floppy disk or microfiche? Offhand, I don't know the answer to
that, but a note at the foot of the Sheffield entry in "Marriage and
Censuses Indexes for Family Historians" says that this is the case, but
other years 1841-1881 are accessible through LDS Family History Centres.

I am sure Jeanne Bunting will see this and perhaps she could ask her hubby
Michael, who is a Sheffield and District FHS member and presides over the
Sheffield section of the Yorkshire stand at the SoG Fair!

Roy Stockdill, Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies
The Stockdill Family History Society
Web page:- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock
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”Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you.
If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and
humorist 1771-1845)

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