1911 England/Wales Summary Books - Ancestry (General)

by cmfenton , Ferndown, Dorset, Saturday, January 01, 2011, 12:21 (5080 days ago) @ m p griffiths

There's an interesting hint on the Lost Cousins site for getting more information from the 1911 census at no extra cost when using the Summary Books from Ancestry and the 1911census.co.uk census site.
In the example given here, the source for the Wickenden family in the 1911 Summary Book can be seen as:
Source Citation: Class: RG78; Piece: 920 with a schedule number of 106.

This can be combined into a (free) search on the 1911 site for "Wickenden" using the advanced Census Reference field "RG78PN920 SN106" (note that the space before SN seems to be critical) which gives us the family names and ages:

WICKENDEN ELIZABETH F 1845 66
WICKENDEN FANNY F 1881 30
WICKENDEN HARRY M 1886 25
WICKENDEN REGINALD M 1897 14
WICKENDEN WILLIAM M 1844 67

Note though that the census reference itself is not unique - repeating the search without the surname here will give about 20 names from a number of families. This is because there are several enumerators' books in use for each RG and Piece combination. This can cause confusion when searching for common surnames - as in my case when looking up Meek families using reference RG78PN921 SN58 which gives 16 names - corresponding to a family of 8 in East Dean District 4 (Ruardean Hill), 5 in District 3 (Harry Hill) and 3 in District 7 (Cinderford) - so some prior knowledge is useful in these cases.

-Colin