As Rod Neep is retiring, Archive CD Books Ltd will cease trading and the company will be closed down. The company is not being sold. We expect the close to take place on 30th September 2007, after which this on-line catalogue and ordering will no longer be available.

Any orders received by this date will be processed and posted during the following couple of weeks. Because we expect to be busy making many more CDs than normal please be patient for your delivery.

Catalogue prices shown on these pages are the normal prices, BUT AT THE TIME OF CHECKOUT A 50% DISCOUNT WILL BE APPLIED on all orders where the normal order price is greater than £15.00 (before tax and postage)

Scanned images of all of the original census enumerator's books for various counties, reproduced on multiple CD sets for reading using Adobe Acrobat Reader. (Compatible with PC and Apple Mac).

IMPORTANT !

Please note: Censuses are organised by Registration Districts, which do not necessarily correspond with county boundaries. A set of census records for a Registration District may omit some places within a county, and/or include places from adjacent counties. The CDs contain the records of Registration Districts.

We are very proud of the quality of the scanned images. We have worked from films copied from the first generation films at the PRO, and have then used the very best possible film scanner currently available to digitise the images at a high resolution. Using Adobe Acrobat Reader you can zoom in and in to read the pages. You really don't have to squint to read the pages. Zoom right in without noticeable loss of detail.. You can print first class copies of any page for use in your family history documents.

These are very old original hand written records. The vast majority of pages are readable, but there may be some pages that are illegible due to faded ink and the techniques used to film the records. Our scanning is done from films and we apply enhancement techniques to obtain the best possible results. When you order the census CDs, you accept that some pages may be difficult to read or illegible.

This is real primary data. Note that the CDs contain images of the actual pages of the census enumerators' books. Real original primary research data. (Not transcriptions in text format). What you see is the original hand written documents. That does involve you reading the pages rather than typing in a name and expecting the computer to find it. However, you will very quickly become used to the handwriting styles of the different enumerators, and it is easy to click through the pages at even low magnification to spot the people you are looking for.

Reproduced by permission of the National Archives.

YOU CAN SEARCH THE LONDON 1881 CENSUS ON LINE AT http://www.familysearch.org

OR YOU MAY EVEN HAVE THE LDS 1881 CENSUS CDs WHICH ARE TRANSCRIPTS OF THE 1881 CENSUS.

THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THE ORIGINAL HAND WRITTEN PAGES OF THE CENSUS ON CD

Think of it like this: for just £5.10 (£5.99 with VAT on sales within the EEC) you can have the whole of the original pages of the original books for a whole registration district on CD FOR RESEARCH OR SIMPLY TO PRINT YOUR OWN COPIES !

Search the www.familyhistory.org site for your ancestors in the 1881 census, or refer to the transcripts on the LDS CDs - make a note of the census piece and folio number - and then order just that part of the original census that you need from Archive CD Books.