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GR's Census Records

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Suledan

Suledan Report 27 Oct 2010 21:00

Hi all, I'm a newbie on the forum but not on GR.
Does anyone know why can you only look at one page of a census instead of like Ancestry where you can search a whole district if you wish by going 'along the streets' around a relatives house ? Sometimes famlies can be carried over the page -- what then?? I find it really frustrating!

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 27 Oct 2010 21:40

Dont use genes records, but you are able to flick the pages of the original census data on Find MY Past.

Ann

KempinaPartyhat

KempinaPartyhat Report 27 Oct 2010 22:09

Welcome to the mad house

and like Ann I dont use the records here I have never had much sucess with them
BUt if there is anything we can help you with please ask ....often people here will copy and paste census stuff for each other

Joy

Joy Report 27 Oct 2010 22:15

I have seen this mentioned before and, apparently, one has to ask the powers that be in order to see the next page. Most odd.

In records offices, one winds the film from page to page or scrolls along the microfiche from page to page, and in the ancestry and find my past sites, and the Mormons;, for instance, 1881, one scrolls from page to page.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 28 Oct 2010 05:32

I think it is because GR does not carry the records


they re-direct you to another site (presumably findmypast now that they are members of the same "stable" of companies!)


and I assume that is why you cannot turn the pages!



Note that they also charge you to look at bmds, when you can look at them for free on www.freebmd.org.uk!



sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.