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From: "Lisa van Schaick" <>
Subject: Re: 1841 census lookup
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:50:13 +0200
References: <20050927180615.3184BD4292@mra02.ch.as12513.net>


Very weird, but thanks, Clive. It was on there only a couple of days ago,
and had 6 days to go. I'll see if I get a reply, because this was before
Jennifer Rapps' most generous offer. My experience with Ebay help has been
very good so far, except for one 'company' who has been proved to copy and
sell a very large number of CD's belonging to other companies under his own
name, at a lower price, who provided very poor service as well as illegal
products. Since the costs for doing one family for all of England (and
Holland, and Germany) are exhorbitant, I am always glad if someone can help
for less. Jennifer, stay tuned................
best regards,
Lisa

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clive Henly" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 8:06 PM
Subject: RE: 1841 census lookup


> Hi Lisa,
>
> I searched on Ebay for 'census lookup' and found one person offering
lookups
> in the 1861 - 1901 censuses, at a cost of 99 pence (UK) per family per
year.
> Presumably for this they would use the online facilities - of course it is
> much cheaper to do it yourself, and you have access to the same
facilities!
>
> I couldn't find anyone offering lookups for 1841. However, a couple of
> months ago I found someone offering a similar service for the country of
> Devon (1841), though they were looking only in the published (printed)
> indexes, and all funds generated went to a charity.
>
> So, my advice would be to question carefully what you get for your money,
> and to make sure you can't do the same thing yourself (for a much lower
> cost!).
>
> Best wishes
>
> Clive Henly
> Chippenham, Wiltshire
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa van Schaick [mailto:]
> Sent: 27 September 2005 10:35
> To:
> Subject: 1841 census lookup
>
> Dear Group,
> I happened across an offer on Ebay (valid for another 5 days, I think)
from
> someone who is willing to do 1841 census lookups for Wiltshire, for 99
cents
> (I forget whether that was dollar or pound cents). Just wanted to pass
that
> on as I have often seen such requests on the mailing list. (go to the Ebay
> site, type in 'census lookup' under Search.
> best regards,
> Lisa
>

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