The UK 1881 Census
 If
trawling through reels of census microfilm in a windowless, airless
basement in the old PRO or in a record office, library or family
history society isn't your favourite pastime, why not browse through
those records in the comfort of your own home?
With the use of personal computers becoming more widespread, the
ideal solution to making the census records easily accessible to
the general public was to transfer those records from fiche (reduced
images of photographed documents) to CD-ROM.
One of the pioneers in this field is S&N
Genealogy Supplies/British Data Archive, a UK-based, family-run
company. Their catalogue of Census CD-ROM sets now covers all of the English and Welsh counties for 1891.
The CDs are very simple to use. The census images can be viewed
using the Adobe Acrobat browser provided with the CDs. They are
bookmarked by piece number, and street or area indexes are also
provided, enabling you to locate your particular area of interest
and the sub-district or piece number which covers that area. Once
images are displayed on your screen, you can zoom in and out, move
the image around, and even rotate the image 90 degrees, something
that can be useful when printing.
What sets S&N apart from the competition is the quality of their
products. Each page has been scanned several times to get the best
possible results. If some are missing or unreadable on the original
microfilm or fiche, those images are obtained from the PRO and included
on the CDs. S&Ns census CD sets cover all of the English and
Welsh counties, even if some of those counties CD sets are not economically
viable.
To learn more about those products, click here.
Census CD Reviews
March 2011
Lancashire 1841 Census (DVD)
This useful seven-DVD set consists of images of the 1841 census enumerators' books for the historic county of Lancashire. This differs from the modern county and includes some towns which are no longer part of Lancashire, such as Warrington and Barrow-in-Furness, as well as the cities of Manchester and Liverpool. READ FULL REVIEW...
January 2011
Jersey 1901 Census & Devon 1857 Gazetteer and Directory
William Humphries reviews this month's data CDs for family historians. READ FULL REVIEW...
November 2009
Lancashire 1861 Census
This four DVD set comprises images of the enumerators' books for the 1861 census of Lancashire, and also includes a places index and street indexes to the larger towns and cities. READ
FULL REVIEW...
(Reviews from GenealogyReviews.co.uk)
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