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Comment on December 16th update by Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:15:07 +0000

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Comment on Last week in Numbers by iantester

iantester — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:56:20 +0000

@Rob: you are correct and are more than welcome to peruse our accounts when they are made available - you will be able to get them online via the Companies House website.

Comment on Today’s youth ‘work-shy and lazy’ study finds by Martin Tolley

Martin Tolley — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:22:20 +0000

I have to agree with Stacey’s comments here. The two items being compared do not allow the conclusions to be drawn that today’s youth are work-shy and lazy. That really is a spurious and misleading headline. As a University teacher my experience is that the majority of young people today are hard working and a long way from being lazy. Many of my students in “full-time” education, where we expect them to put in 40 hours of attendance at classes and studying have to hold down nearly full-time jobs to enable them to attend classes at all. And in these days of increasingly fractured families parental support and advice is frequently hard to come by. Young people today have a wealth of pressures upon them and I think we ought to be rather more charitable and supportive of their efforts to survive and to fulfill their potential; and certainly not provide more derogatory headlines based on invalid evidence.

Comment on Today’s youth ‘work-shy and lazy’ study finds by Stacey Bullen

Stacey Bullen — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:50:15 +0000

This article is really interesting, and I liked finding out the ‘Top 5 Career Choices of 2010′ and ‘Most Popular Occupations of 1911′. However, I am astounded that the two have been compared and that it has been boasted that results show that today’s youth is ‘work-shy and lazy’. Career choices and Occupations are totally different things, yes today’s top career choice may be famous musician/singer but how many of us have actually become that? Not many. Along the same lines, how many of our ancestors would have actually chosen to go down the mines or work in the cotton mills? Not many, I’m sure.

A more interesting comparison would have been the most occupations which most of us actually hold today, against those held in 1911, which I think would show IT dominating much more than ‘hands on’ occupations such as plumber, baker, shoemaker etc.

Again I enjoyed this article, but the comparison doesn’t really work unfortunately.

Comment on Herbert Henry Asquith’s 1911 census return by Amy Sell

Amy Sell — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:31:28 +0000

Hi Lesley,

Emma was actually Asquith’s second wife and the mother of the youngest two children on the 1911 census return. Helen Violet and Cyril Asquith’s mother had sadly died in 1891.

Very sharp-eyed of you though!

Amy

Comment on Herbert Henry Asquith’s 1911 census return by Lesley Powell

Lesley Powell — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:12:31 +0000

I wonder why Maurice Bonham Carter has written that Emma Asquith had 4 children - 2 living and 2 that had died, when there are 4 living children entered on the census form! Did he think that the form was asking how many were male and how many female?

Comment on New search features - leading wildcard, increased year range by iantester

iantester — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:33:06 +0000

Hi Chantel,

No problem. If you can attribute us (1911census.co.uk blog) as the source and provide a link back, that’d be appreciated. But I’m not going to teach academics to suck eggs!

Best wishes from rainy London.

Comment on New search features - leading wildcard, increased year range by Chantel Panama

Chantel Panama — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:21:03 +0000

I trust you would not have reservations if I posted a part of this on my univeristy blog?

Comment on BETA: 14 more new counties available on beta by Mee Panama

Mee Panama — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:18:01 +0000

I just wanted to say that I found your site via Goolge and I am glad I did. Keep up the good work and I will make sure to bookmark you for when I have more free time away from the books. Thanks again!

Comment on Last week in Numbers by Rob

Rob — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:27:42 +0000

I have only just found this blog and wanted to add something that is incorrect.

Iantester said “as a private company that is private” in response to a question asking for figures as to how much had been made from the images.

As a Limited company this should be in the end of year accounts that they have to publish at Companies House. Limited companies figures are only private during their tax year and not at the end which for brightsolid online publishing will be 7th Mar 2010.

I wonder also what the monopolies and mergers will think if they try to acquire any more genealogical sites. The company in my opinion should be investigated now like BAA was because they provide a poor and expensive service and have a far to great market share

Rob