FFHS-NEWS New census records available online from FMP

[News from the Federation of Family History Societies]

>From FMP
 
1901 census completed for England & Wales - 24 counties added

A  brand new transcription of the 1901 census with newly scanned
high-quality  images is now complete on findmypast.com. The final 24
counties and other UK  territories have just been added comprising over
5.6 million new records - so  you can now search the census in full  at
http://mail.findmypast.com/cgi-bin11/DM/y/eA0THoAO0GEV0BPLV0EL. This  new
transcription has already helped researchers to find many  individuals
whose names have been wrongly transcribed in earlier  versions.

The new additions  are:

England

Cumberland
Devonshire
Durham
Northumberland
Westmorland
Worcestershire

Wales

Anglesey
Brecknockshire
Carnarvonshire
Cardiganshire
Carmarthenshire
Denbighshire
Flintshire
Glamorganshire
Merionethshire
Montgomeryshire
Monmouthshire
Pembrokeshire
Radnorshire

Other

Guernsey  and Adjacent Islands
Isle of Man
Jersey
Royal Navy at Sea and in ports  abroad



More new census records available soon

The  completion of the 1901 census brings findmypast.com a crucial step
closer to  a full set of 1841-1901 England and Wales censuses. The 1851
census - the  only remaining incomplete census - will be available in
full within the next  few months. Findmypast.com recently added records
of 180,000 individuals from  the Manchester, Chorlton, Salford, Oldham
and Ashton-Under-Lyne registration  districts, previously never filmed
and missing from all other versions of the  1851 census. These pages were
severely water damaged many years ago by  flooding, some so badly that no
writing was visible and many were too fragile  to be scanned. Volunteers
from the Manchester and Lancashire Family History  Society (MLFHS)
transcribed the records. Using the latest ultraviolet  equipment the team
was able to see writing that had not been visible in  natural daylight,
and to recover text invisible to the naked eye.

Over  the coming months a full set of high-quality 1881 census images
will be added  to the transcriptions already available, thus completing
the 1841-1901 census  collection on findmypast.com. 

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