Archive CD Books:History, Topography & Genealogy Books on CD:Great Britain:England:Yorkshire:Census
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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.
More details about the census CDs, samples and project schedules
THIS CENSUS IS BEING MADE AVAILABLE IN AFFORDABLE SECTIONS
Yorkshire is such a large county that your ancestors are likely to be within a particular area or two, and therefore we have made the census available by districts, on 1, 2 or 3 CDs at affordable prices.
As usual with these notoriously difficult to read census pages of 1851, we have taken great care in the scanning, and have employed image enhancement to give the best possible results. (This results in large files, and hence more CDs than our competitors - but we think that the results are worth it! We work UP TO A QUALITY rather than down to a price.)
When viewing the pages on CD you can zoom in and in to see the finest detail.
On some of the really faded and hard to read pages, then you will see a grey background as in the sample shown here - that is part of the image enhancement process we use to make the really faded pages easy to read.
1 CD
Wike, Cleckheaton, Hunsworth, Drighlington, Tong
AVAILABLE NOW
Price: £7.50 £8.81 Including VAT at 17.5%
North Bierley
Bowling
3 CDs (3189 pages)
BRADFORD
Price: £13.62 £16.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
2 CDs
HORTON
Price: £11.06 £13.00 Including VAT at 17.5%
Thornton, Clayton, Allerton, Wilsden
Shipley, Heaton, Bolton, Idle, Eccleshill
Calverley, Pudsey
Census pieces RG9/3682, 3683, 3685, 3686, 3687, 3688, 3689, 3690, 3694
Census Registration Districts do not coincide with county boundaries. Whole census pieces are included on this CD, and therefore places in both Durham and Yorkshire are included.
Places included:
Acklam, Aislaby, Barton, Billingham, Cleasby, Cliffe, Coniscliffe, Coopen Bewley, Croft, Dalton on Tees, Darlington Holy Trinity, Dinsdale, Egglescliff, Eryholme, Girsby, High Coniscliffe, High Worsall, Hurworth upon Tees, Ingleby Barwick, Kirk Leavington, Linthorp, Low Coniscliffe, Low Worsall, Maltby, Manfield, Middlesbrough, Middleton St George, Neasham, Newsham, Newton Bewley, Newton Morrell, Over Dinsdale, Pickton, Piercebridge, Sockburn, Stainton, Stapleton, Stockton on Tees, Thornaby, Wolviston, Yarm.
Note: the contents of this CD are in the full set 1861 Durham Registration Districts (C1861DUR), the contents of this CD are not in the set for the North Riding Registration Districts (C1861YKS-N).
Census pieces RG9/3717, 3719, 3720, 3721
Barnard Castle, Barningham, Basforth, Boldron, Bowes, Brignall, Cleatlam, Cockfield, Cotherstone, Eggleston, Egglestone Abbey, Gainford, Gilmonby, Headlam, Holwick, Hunderthwaite, Hutton, Langton, Lastington, Lune, Marwood, Mickleton, Ovington, Rokeby, Romald Kirk, Scargill, Staindrop, Stainton, Startforth, Streatham, Thorpe, Westwick, Whorlton, Wycliffe.
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