1911 CENSUS (General)

by mcowan , Monday, May 14, 2012, 14:11 (4579 days ago) @ Jefff

From my experience I will say that there are pros and cons with all family history sites - Ancestry you can subscribe for 1 month at a time, which is a great saving over a 6 monthly or yearly subscription with findmypast. Findmypast has, I think, a better set out census but I think they have more transcription errors which they do correct when informed. Ancestry has generally got more records. Sometimes a record can be found on one site and not on the other. FOD transcribers are volunteers and they read and consider what they are transcribing whereas Ancestry and Findmypast transcriptions are just transcribed quickly and without any great thought so therefore more errors will be found. We as personal family historians have the time (hopefully) to dig a bit deeper and it is suprising what can be found if you can search outside the box. I recently found some census returns that had been transcribed under a totally different name because of a transcription error that was easy for me to read (I looked under the village and read through the names). So keep searching and you may be lucky but you do need the time and patience! Good luck!
Anne