Could I get a quick/painless favor from someone in England?
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Rissa | Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 06:42 am     Hope posting this is OK. Short and temporary thread. I am trying to access the 1901 British Census which they FINALLY seem to have online but it keeps telling me it's busy. I have heard rumours on my message boards that they are limiting access to the UK until they finish testing the site. Been waiting 9 months now for it and it's driving me INSANE!!! The site is setup so that the index can be searched totally for free, no need to register, etc. It's only when trying to download an image from the census that there is a charge. Is anyone here online from the UK that could do an index-only search for me? That is, if anyone there can get it to open in the first place!! The website is: http://www.census.pro.gov.uk/ If anyone can actually access it, then I can email or post details of whom I am searching for. |
Admin | Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 10:00 am     Seems to be working for me, I'm in Canada. |
Rissa | Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 10:07 am     You're kidding? You are getting the actual census, not the sorry but site it too busy page? Would you mind taking a few minutes to do a lookup for me? I have been hitting refresh since 5 this morning. They said they were going to limit it to 1 million people at a time, the first day it went up (originally on Jan. 2), they had over 30 million at ONE TIME and the site crashed. Today is the first day since then they have allowed public use at all. |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 01:53 pm     Rissa, I know your frustration with this genealogy stuff. I can't get into that site, either. |
Rissa | Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 03:45 pm     I got in !!!!!! I got in !! RFLOL Only took me 8.5 hours but I did it. LOL Got about 80% of the families I was looking for too. Try it now Twiggy, they tried to sneak it online but a friend in England clued me in. Now that most of the UK is asleep, your odds are better. |
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