1911 census tip! (General)

by jimashton , Tuesday, February 03, 2009, 05:32 (5845 days ago) @ Simone

Simone

I discovered a similar work around to Simone's tip in the early days of the 1901 Census, this involved recording the unique consecutive reference number for each person in the census (OK for a family that is not too large) the reference number was revealed when you hovered the mouse over the index entry. Once these consecutive reference numbers, together with name etc., were copied and pasted into Excel, you could sort the alphabetical list by the reference number and hey presto they were all sorted into households. The main point here is that when this trick had been discovered, it was stopped by the very simple means of keeping the reference number secret. My guess is that Simone's "Household" trick will be soon stopped, so make hay while the sun shines.

Jim Ashton