London Census on CD-ROM
London census pages, transcripts and name-indexes available
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Limehouse
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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 past-time, 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 micro-fiche and film to CD-ROM.
S&N Genealogy Supplies/British Data Archive, a UK-based family-run company, is a pioneer in this field.
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London census CDs easy to use
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London Census on CD-ROM. Available for
1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901
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The London 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 the user to locate their 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 them out 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 and included on the CDs.
S&N census CD sets cover most of the English and Welsh counties, even if some of those counties are not economically viable.
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London Census Availablility on CD-ROM and Online
You can click any underlined items for product details and/or ordering.
The census and official records of birth, marriage and death do not go back as far as parish records. Parish Records started in 1538 when Thomas Cromwell, the Vicar General to King Henry VIII, declared that all marriages, christenings and burials should be recorded. For years before the census began, London Parish Records are a very useful resource. A wide range of London Parish Records is available on CD and some are now online.
Other useful resources are London Directories, which are also available on CD and online.
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In addition to this, S&N
Genealogy Supplies has a great wealth of genealogical data and books on
CD, as well as software and storage, thus making the company an invaluable resource to family historians.
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