1911 Census summary books on Ancestry

Ancestry have now the 1911 England and Wales Census Summary Books on their website here. 


The complete set of 1911 Census record images will launch on-line in early 2011, followed by the indexes, which will be made available in sections throughout the remainder 2011.


I see that Amazon are currently selling Family Tree Maker Platinum Edition (with 6 months access to http://www.ancestry.co.uk) for £29.99, see here for details.

The 1911 census

The 1911 census is online as from today:

www.1911census.co.uk

 

Most (but not all) counties are available, see:

http://blog.1911census.co.uk/2009/01/counties-available-on-the-site-at-launch

for details.

It’s not cheap:

£6.95 - 60 credits - £0.12 per credit 

£24.95 - 280 credits - £0.09 per credit 

£49.95 - 600 credits - £0.08 per credit 

Transcripts are 10 credits and original pages are 30 credits.

Eventually  the 1911 census will also appear on http://www.findmypast.com/1911census.jsp as part of a subscription package but at present you can only do it using credits.

For married women the census gives:

• Years married 
  
• Number of children born to present marriage, living and deceased
  

But you need to see the original page and not the transcript to see this.

Information on infirmity (eg deaf, dumb, blind, lunatic, imbecile etc.) will not be available to view until the census is officially opened in January 2012. 

1911 England and Wales Census

I've enjoyed having a look at the preview of the 1911 census for England and Wales:

http://www.1911census.co.uk.

Unfortunately they've not covered all counties yet, so I'll have to wait before I can find my Yorkshire relatives.  It's easy to search but I think it's rather expensive, at around £1 per trancript and £3 per image!

I've currently got a subscription with Ancestry, so am wondering about swopping to Find My Past when they include the 1911 census in their subscription packages.   

It's hard when comparing packages to work out who has 100% coverage for the different years and whether thay are using different trancriptions.  I think at present Find My Past have yet to complete 1851 and 1901.  I've not yet used The Genealogist, which some say has better scans of the 1841 census.  Has anyone transcribed the 1881 census other than the Family Search which I gather Ancestry use?

It will be nice when Free Cen increase their coverage....