More images available within the month at no extra cost
Thursday, January 15th, 2009So far, we have only made a single image available on 1911census.co.uk - the principal original page of the RG14 Household (or Institution) Summary.
Within the next month, we will make the following images available at NO EXTRA COST.
If you have already bought the original page of the household original page, you will be able to view any associated images for free, simply by returning to the record you have paid for via the “My Records” area on the website. Any new images that you buy will have all the associated images available at the flat cost of 30 credits for the lot.
Not every search result will have all of the following images available but many households will.
Extra RG14 Household (or Institution) Schedule images:
- The address panel from the back of the schedule, showing the address as written by your ancestors and the registration district and subdistrict
- The front page of the volume in which your schedule was stored, giving more detailed information on parishes and districts
Extra RG78 Enumerator Summary Book images
- The Front page of the volume in which the Enumerator’s Summary sheet was stored
- Enumerator’s Summary original page - this not only shows the names of heads of households and how many people occupied the houses (showing you the neighbours), but also lists other buildings, whether houses or not.
- Population statistics for the area
- a description of the Enumerator’s walk
- (in some cases) a map of the Enumerator’s walk
The Enumerator’s summary original page in particular is a real treasure trove of local information and can also help you unlock mysteries such as family living nearby.
Looking at one from my great-grandfather’s house in Hastings old town, as well as private houses, there are listed 2 pubs, many stables, a corporation store, the East Hill lift (!), rope huts, a mortuary, the Fisherman’s Church, what would nowadays be called a dump, and many more buildings. I can also see three families that remain family friends 98 years later living in the same row of houses!
We will update this blog once we have a firm date for the arrival of these images on the site.
UPDATE: June 18th - these images have now been added at the same time as the completion of the census, after some significant work in the past few months to get them ready for release. To view the extra images, you may need to load a fresh version of the page, especially if you are looking at an original household page that you have viewed previously. To do this, hit the CTRL and F5 keys on your computer together to reload the page, and new buttons should appear allowing you access to the extra images. Please be aware that some household schedules do NOT have Enumerators Summary Books as a small number did not survive.